Incident at Heathrow

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Evacuation

Quote: "Presumably the captain disagrees with your view that the emergency was not life threatening or he wouldn't have put the passenges through the chance on injury, with a slide evacuation".


An emergency evacuation is carried out if there is any evidence of fire or catastrophic damage. This would normally be initiated by the flight crew, but may be triggered by the cabin crew if they consider it to be necessary and no command is heard from the flight deck - with, of course, due consideration for which side or part of the aircraft is affected. Cabin crew are trained to check outside the door for evidence of fire before opening it.