Tightslot
It seems (to me at least) regrettable, that the second post on this thread should seek to criticise from such remote comfort.
It wasn't a critcism in any way. My point was that when I originally trained back in BOAC days, we were shown a grainy 'PanAm 90 second evac' demo of this being carried out and were expected to do the same if anything happened in the future. All subsequent SEP refresher courses, regardless of fleet highlighted this training. I've just had a look at a previous manual for a UK carrier and I quote
The law demands that all passenger aircraft shall have a specified number of exits in the passenger cabin, i.e. Doors, emergency windows or
escape hatches, or air stairs together with appropriate escape equipment, (so that with a full passenger load, complete evacuation of the aircraft can be achieved within 90 seconds, and assuming that all the exits on one side of the aircraft are inoperable).
As I said before well done to all the crew for what happened.