Originally Posted by
Machdiamond
Forgetting to shut the engines down immediately after an evacuation command, with unusable slides and/or passengers blown the ground, seems to become a common occurrence.
Or maybe it is placed too far down in the evacuation checklist?
It's the second item after the checklist, after the parking brake is set. The evacuation command is the last item, as it should be. You need to evaluate the situation and not rush a checklist to be sure everything gets done.
This was most likely a cabin crew intimated evacuation, which they are entitled to do, but only if they cannot contact the flightdeck. The report will show the truth, but I would suspect that the flight attendants jumped the gun on the evacuation. It is fortunate that the flightdeck had already turn the fuel control switches off and the engine was winding down.