Originally Posted by
SeenItAll
If no suitable air stairs available, that is what the slides are for.
Unless there was something else going on which made the immediate evacuation of the airplane necessary for safety reasons, no, they would not use the slides to disembark the passengers. Injuries and broken bones are pretty common in slide evacuations. They are intended to be used when you have to get people off the plane *now* or else it is probable that there will be more serious injuries than the injuries which will likely be sustained in a slide evacuation. If the passengers can remain on the airplane without being harmed, that's exactly what will happen until some sort of suitable stair stand is arranged.