So, night flight, on stand at Glasgow (no rear steps or GPU), smell of burning, APU switched off (dark and with PEEPLS lights on), only one door to get 233 people off. Engines off, front door open, slides disarmed, pax standing in aisle, no visual contact between rear crew and either FD or other CC, no instant access to CC checklists (dark and probably manuals stowed safely in OH lockers behind milling pax). Snap decision needed to make up a call to get pax moving to evac...well, clear the aircraft, but not by using the 'slide-blowing' standard call. Strange how you can't come up with a word like "Vacate" or "De-plane" when you are in a hurry but might grab at "Evacuate" or something similar when the heat is on.
she returned to the cabin she announced, in a calm manner, over the passenger address system: “Please evacuate the aircraft as quickly as possible. Leave all hand baggage behind.”
Reminds me of that skipper who shouted "Open the door, we've got some late passengers" which must've sounded quite like "Open doors, evacuate passengers" because the slide got blown. I'm told he got 'terminated' and has spent the rest of his life pontificating on Pprune
After those pax went down the slides it reads as if the AFRS instructed the CC to follow the fire crew out the front rather than going down the slides with the pax.
Does this all sound like an accurate description of the events?