Originally Posted by
Ian W
Neither you nor I know what the captain was told.
He may not have been dealing with just a balance of probabilities but professional advice from the fire service.
So you are making the assumption that if you were captain and on the ground with a wing on fire and no other inputs you would evacuate. Probably the captain in this case would have done so too. But if he knew the wing tanks were empty and had been told by the fire service that the fire was not too severe, was not spreading and they estimated less than a minute to extinguish if he did not evacuate you would presumably tell the fire service to wind their necks in and withdraw you were going to evacuate anyway as it was 'a no brainer decision'. Therefore you would not use your brain take no notice of input information tell the fire service to stop trying to kill the fire pull back and let you evacuate the pax on the slides (that is of course if the NonRevs who post on here had not already fought their way past the flight attendants and started the evacuation for you).
The fire service was driving away from the aircraft to go around the block, in the first minutr.. And during that time, the fire was getting bigger and bigger. Have you not seen the video?
Your hypothesis does not fit the facts at all.