He refers to the stewardess as "the flustered blond" showing her feelings of panic in these circumstances. These stewardesses are also systematically "searching the overhead compartments", which also shows the panic that is going through them and their desire to assure safety. "The girl in the window seat" is also starting to show "distress". Slowly even more passengers come into his story, "press[ing]" their way out of the plane. While passengers "flee past" him to get out of the plane, he "stroll[s] to the door". .
While the "flustered" passengers seem to be in great "distress", he seems to be rather calm for a "nervous passenger". However, throughout this text, Martin Amis does have certain frustrations, or he is annoyed by certain things, however, these reasons are never the fact that the plane may be crashing. These reasons come unexpected and shocking to the reader. That the plane is crashing does not seem to have any effect on him. First of all, he is "grumbling to himself" when he can't get something out of the bar, due to it closing for technical reasons. While a "nervous passenger" would generally hyperventilate at hearing the words "technical problems", he, surprisingly, does not. It does not come into his mind to be worried about the state that the plane is in; all he wants is a cocktail. .
Further on, when he hears they are going back from where they came, to land quickly, he again is not scared, yet "unworriedly" is frustrated about "the six-hour wait, the free orangeade and the bun-voucher" that he"ll have to go through when landed. .
Again, when the passengers have to leave the aircraft in emergency he, "of course", has more concern to get his wallet which has fallen down the isle, than to get out of the plane. The "of course" shows that he thinks this is obvious, rather than strange. He either, generally as a "nervous passenger" does not realize the danger he is in, or he values his wallet more than his life.
