The fire crew apparently deemed an evacuation a suitable action.
There was an aircraft many years ago (cant recall the detail, but featured in Naked Pilot HF book) where an in flight fire was followed by a safe emergency landing. The captain decided not to evacuate and sadly, everyone perished on board due to sudden smoke inhalation.
It is so easy to judge based on hindsight, but at the end of the day....no one was majorly hurt in this incident, and the aircraft is still intact.
Lessons can be learned. UK aviation should be proud of its just culture. Some of you speculators that are apportioning blame......that blame culture is an unwelcome thing of the past!
