Originally Posted by
slip and turn
The emergency exits in the SSJ-100 SVO incident were woefully inadequate as they are on most narrow body aircraft. The aviation incident was completely survivable. The static killing and maiming by fire and smoke was medieval. Burn through clearly is the killer and it has nothing to do with flying other than the fact that coming back to terra firma too easily dumps you in such a terrible situation. The speed of onset of danger in with an ignited fuel spill means you must be able to get out of the cigar tubes sat in those flames immediately, and it is of course is impossible if you can only use the two front exits and you are in the back. Why do we still tolerate this risk?
Since we're now into hypothetical territory, I'd suggest that even the presence of overwing exits (which of course aren't a requirement on an aircraft of this size) would not have materially affected the casualty count. The solution would therefore seem to be to require all airlines to operate only wide bodies ...