Thanks for the link, some interesting weekend reading in there, and some wry smiles:
... an Evacuation checklist, which included the following procedures for the captain: select parking brake ON, turn engine master switches 1 and 2 to OFF
...
The captain stated that he considered completing his part of the checklist but that he realized that the items would not help the situation
I bet he deadpanned that statement in his interview too.
On a more serious note:
- 17% of pax watched the safety brief (or "most" of it)
- 8% of pax actually looked at the safety card
- 6% of pax got themselves a life jacket
Ouch. They were very very lucky to be in an EOW aircraft with the pilot they had, but that's really riding your luck.