no nosegear landing of A330 at Jeddah
 

Interesting decision doing slide evac in abnormal attitude like that. Be great to hear more/reasons. And who ordered it...

Goeasy

Why an interesting decision? The slides on the A330 can be used in any unusual configuration.

Were you there when the event occurred? There may at the time have been good reason to make that decision.

So how many people were injured during the evacuation then ?

Reportedly around 140 passengers on board, so there would typically be a few minor injuries during a full-scale evacuation of that many pax.

FlightGlobal reports no serious injuries:

"An Onur Air Airbus A330-200 (TC-OCH), operating on behalf of Saudia on May 21, 2018, developed a problem sometime after take-off from Madinah, Saudi Arabia on a flight to Dhaka, Bangladesh and the pilot elected to divert to Jeddah. On arrival at Jeddah, when the undercarriage was selected down, the nose undercarriage apparently did not extend. Further attempts to get the undercarriage down were not successful and the aircraft eventually landed at Jeddah with the nose undercarriage retracted. There were no reported serious injuries to passengers or crew. The accident happened in darkness (2149L) but in VMC."

Possible fire threat ??

https://www.airlive.net/wp-content/u.../Capture-1.png

I would assume that if the nose was scraping then there would be sparks and possibly fire. If there was a burning smell in the cockpit then I can see that the crew might prefer to get everyone off quickly.

Let's face it, here on PPRUNE, this was a no win situation.

If Slides were deployed: Why were the slides deployed, innocent passengers may be injured unnecessarily?
If Slides weren't deployed: Why weren't the slides deployed, there could have been unknown damage / fire that could lead to more problems requiring an emergency evac.

Just saying!

Article says the flight "developed a problem" and only on landing was the gear issue apparent.

So without knowing what the "problem" was that caused the diversion, it is quite out of line to question whether an evac was necessary or not...

Should those rearmost slides be even used in such a tail high situation? And I agree with the poster suggesting an evacuation is questionable in these circumstances; my initial response would be tell everyone to remain in their seats and stand by for further instructions, then have an ALL CALL with the trolley dolleys and ATC, fire department etc to ascertain what else is going on. However, the cabin crew at least at my airline are instructed to initiate an evac if no cockpit response etc. Tricky

Oilhead

Monday morning quaterbacking I see! As I already said there is NO restriction on using the slides in an unusual attitude, you do not fly the A330 do you?

Do you really expect passengers to remain seated for the hour or so that it would take to get steps out to THAT runway?

I was just asking as when someone says that there are 'almost certain injuries' and the published numbers say otherwise that's all ...... history is no guarantee of future events.

What "published numbers"? Where?

All I've seen is the report (in Flight) that there were no serious injuries. But then that's true of most evacuations. It's equally true that a slide evacuation of a wide-body load of passengers will result in some sprains/scrapes/bumps/abrasions on about 90% of occasions.

So "almost certain injuries" (albeit probably minor) would be a perfectly reasonable statement.

Evaluation of Aircraft Slide Evacuation Injuries

Let's not forget that there are unhappy folk memories in Saudi Arabia of passengers stuck in burning aircraft. The instinct to get passengers off quickly, when things could go wrong quickly, may still be strong.