Originally Posted by
Keylime
In addition to the evacuation question, how many airports did they pass returning to Changi???
From the reports the engine problem was low oil pressure. The decision was made to turn back rather than continue to Milan. The aircraft did not have a major problem and was not on fire until
after it landed. I presume you would carry out an immediate diversion with an oil pressure low indication?
It seems that there are a lot of posters who would have applauded a decision to evacuate and send a dozen or so pax to the hospital but find a problem with a decision to
not evacuate presumably on the advice of the airport fire crew, which resulted in no injured pax.
This actually was the right decision in hindsight probably based on a risk assessment from fire crew experts actually on the scene.
The 'no-brain' automatons would presumably disregard fire crew advice and evacuate anyway. An interesting position to take if pax are subsequently injured in what the experts on the scene felt was an unnecessary use of the slides.