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.
Do not conflate transportation to hospital with serious injuries. In several developed countries now there is a great desire to hike people off to hospital after incidents. Road traffic accident statistics in the UK for "serious" injuries have been distorted by this.
Has anyone knowledge of a genuine total emergency bring completed in the required 90 secs ?
Against this, the tests (which are required to have a representative age range rather than a load of athletes) are done at maximum certified passenger capacity, something from the IT world. But a long-haul major carrier would have little more than about 60% of this number of seats, and furthermore not all would often be sold on many flights. So many evacuations should come in actually under the target.
Did I once read that a manufacturer's evac test offered US$ 100 extra to the first hundred out, to encourage pushing and shoving, as in reality ?