I wonder if people posting here and favouring staying in the aircraft have ever been in a real fire .
I have about 30 years ago.
The fire started with radar absorbing foam catching fire.
Then aluminium burning. Then flames up to
3rd floor level. Examining the building the next day steel I-beams of
possibly 50cm depth supporting the roof were bent like bananas.
After that I and others got some fire training with foam, powder, water,
and lots & lots of diesel.. Good fun.
If I had been on that aircraft I would have left it somehow.
Remember the Tenerife 747 accident years ago. One of the few people
and wife I believe to escape, did not wait for instructions but fought
their way out. He had been in a fire years ago as a young man.
John