Originally Posted by
pumpkin53
The 767 at KFLL last year had a 20+ % casualty rate coming down the slides with one engine alight. On hard tarmac and went "well" according to 1st hand witnesses. Just under 100 souls, ~ 20 were transported to hospitals. On video you can see one chap was blown off the slide by jet wash, and didn't look so active upon landing...
Media reports at the time suggested that the sole serious injury was to a passenger who had successfully negotiated the slide and who then tripped and fell, hitting his head, while running from the aircraft.
But however it happened, a 1 in 100 chance of serious injury sounds like pretty good odds to me, compared to the alternative.