I'm not about to put money on my comment about the English female Purser strongly suggesting to the captain some time after touchdown that they should open the doors and get everyone off, (and her being ignored), but I saw and heard this in a dramatised reconstruction that was shown to us all on a CRM course some years ago now, (where the FE's astigmatism was also mentioned as a possible contributary factor).
I can only surmise that any such reconstruction would have been a more or less faithful reproduction of the VCR - one of the few peices of the aircraft apart from the wheel bogies and outer wings to survive the fire. Anyone else out there with a better memory than mine who can recall the film and can put me straight on this point?
Apologies if I'm falling into 'Monday morning quarterback' mode now, but whatever the reason for the final, tragic outcome, this accident is yet another good example of the unassailable fact that you can be double quessed and criticised by every expert in the book - (each with three weeks to pore over every sub paragraph in every book in his library) - for a too early/unnecessary evacuation where there's fire or smoke involved. However, you'll have ten or fifteen mostly LIVE pax suing you for their 'unnecessary' broken legs and heart attacks as opposed to facing lawsuits from the families of 300+ dead passengers.