Checkboard,
Just would highlight the fact that one everyone is off and safely positioned upwind by, well I could quote the distance in my ops manual but that would just be getting into nausea. No I would not walk away from an incident just because everyone is off - I would follow our SOP's on actions post evacuation, I'm sure you would do the same. My misquote from above merely highlights that once people are safe, I'm afraid that the material in the hull is not high in my list of priorities - Metal is cheap compared with life.
I would estimate that approximately 10-20% of my ops are tailwind. Not because I choose that, but because that is the reality of operating in many places.
Couple of quotes from yourself...
allows a "standard" brief for the flight attendants to brief the passengers - "Run towards the nose"
and
I wouldn't brief the passengers to run towards the nose.
So which do you get your F/A's to do? I personally like BOAC's reply....