Originally Posted by
RAT 5
I'd be curious to know the reason for the slide evacuation. Was the engine not secured? Not casting any aspersions, but we hear of pax injuries on nearly every evacuation. For the captains it's damned if you do & damned if you don't.
I wondered that too.
But, given that the aircraft was back on the ground 8 minutes after getting airborne rather than holding to troubleshoot the problem, get the weight down, etc, I'd suggest that whatever had happened was considered potentially serious enough to warrant getting the pax off the aircraft as soon as possible.
No doubt more facts will emerge soon enough.