PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - How not to evacuate a plane
View Single Post
Old 5th Apr 2018, 08:14
  #45 (permalink)  
wiggy
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: The Winchester
Posts: 6,554
Received 5 Likes on 5 Posts
RBF..

Israelis are most likely IDF trained, including in how to recognize and react assertively to emergencies
- How about for once giving some credit to the pilots on the flight deck, all of whom highly trained in recognizing and reacting to emergencies..? ( some might even be ex-mil to boot)

Not having been there, none of us can comment knowledgeably on the habitability of the cabin.
You are right, none of us were there, I guess not even you, however as it stands from the initial media report:

An airport towing tug emitted thick smoke that was sucked into the cabin by the plane’s air-conditioning system. Although the pilot repeatedly announced to passengers that the smoke was coming from outside and that there was no danger, those on board apparently left their seats and rushed the doors.
Again back to the comment that:

Israelis are most likely IDF trained, including in how to recognize and react assertively to emergencies.
That doesn't give them a get out of jail card...there patently wasn't an emergency was there? At least there wasn't one at a level that required an immediate evacuation - one that ended up with a woman VSI as a result of the chaos triggered by the passengers, not by the smoke from the tug..

I don't care whether the evacuees were IDF, SAS, the Welsh Male Voice choir or a bunch of Boy Scouts, ignoring the information given by trained individuals who could actually see the source of the problem, and instead evacuating towards a hazardous area is a really really P Poor decision....
wiggy is offline