Originally Posted by
Stuart Sutcliffe
I have to disagree with you Capot.
I am in agreement with peekay4's post just a little further up. The convention used to list the radio transmissions could be improved by using some punctuation but I strongly believe it is indicating that the 'Unknown' person transmitting, not identifying themself, is telling 'Airport Command RF' to not evacuate yet, i.e. the transcript would be more clearly written as:
2042:34 Unknown: "Airport Command RF 2, I'm telling you not to evacuate yet."
The captain's decision to evacuate is his. I find this kind of outside interference in decision making a bad idea. If you are outside the plane, the best assistance you can give the captain is information that helps him arrive at a good decision. Trying to make decisions for him/her? As others have noted, a step in the wrong direction.