Flight Attendants Battle 'Carry-on Crunch'

March 25, 2010 — -- They battle with bulky baggage every day and now flight attendants are fighting back against what they're calling the "carry-on crunch."

Passengers are hauling bigger bags into airplane cabins and trying to stuff them into overhead bins. The Association of Flight Attendants says the carry-on bag binge is out of control.

The group surveyed its members and found that 80 percent of flight attendants have reported cuts, bruises, sprains and strains as a result of dealing with items in the overhead bins. They say it's a safety threat to both flight attendants and passengers.

Just over the past two months, the survey found that half of all flight attendants witnessed a carry-on item fall out of the bins, sometimes injuring passengers.

"As the plane was taking off the bin opened up and out of the bin a bottle of liquor fell, landed, and hit an unsuspecting man in the head," Rene Foss, spokesperson for the AFA told "Good Morning America." "He was injured and we had to give him first aid."

Foss and fellow flight attendant Bill McGlashen said they've seen it all, from a carry-on toilet to a home brewing kit for beer.

"We've had stories from senators, U.S. senators who have been traveling, who have been hit on the head," McGlashen said.