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He said he “was not really scared.”
“Since we have landed already, I was thinking the plane probably won’t explode by this point. We should be fine as long as everyone gets off the plane in an orderly manner.”
The crew of Flight 516 have been praised for their speedy and cool-headed reactions that saved hundreds of lives.
Japan Airlines said the cabin crew used megaphones to direct passengers to safety after the plane’s inflight announcement system malfunctioned.
Reports from inside the plane say flight attendants urged people to remain calm and within seconds of the plane coming to a standstill, were able to deploy the escape chutes and usher passengers off.
“It’s too soon to comment on the specifics of the incident, but what’s clear is that the crew performed in an exemplary fashion,” said Steven Erhlich, chair of PilotsTogether – a charity set up in the pandemic to support crew.
He cited the fact that the passengers on the flight evacuated without taking their carry-on bags with them, which helped save lives.
Great coverage by the Bush Pilot, the info below gives a pretty good picture of things.
An important point not yet discussed…..the Japanese listen to instructions and act as a team, and value human life as a group not just one by one. I heard from a Japanese national that they got everyone off the plane in a minute and a half. Probably the reality is that it took longer, but certainly less than 10 minutes at which the plane exploded.
—–just found where the 10 minutes comes from…… About 10 minutes after disembarking, there was an explosion on the plane, he said. “I can only say it was a miracle … we could have died if we had been late.”
Likely the confusion on evacuation time was because there is a regulation that states that it must be possible for all of the passengers to evacuate in 90 seconds using only 4 of the 8 slides. They only had 3 slides available, and the starboard side engine was still running, apparently not able to receive the shutdown commands.
I imagine they don’t have any “diversity hires” on the flight crew….had to get one mini-rant in
A miracle methinks. They had bullhorns available, which is important, as the main announcement system was dead. 2 dogs died, they couldn’t get them out.
There is some video here showing the evacuation and right engine running.
If you do Twitter, here is some interior cabin footage.
Thie comment below seems to miss an obvious point, “Confirmation” is not when the last person was off the plane. And somewhere else it was said the plane blew up 10 minutes after touchdown.
“The plane landed at 5:47pm. The evacuation was confirmed complete at 6:05pm. The evacuation took 18 minutes, not 90 seconds.”
A somewhat similar crash happened to Air France Flight 358 in 2005
Some comments on YouTube
90 sec is actually the common drill time to evacuate all the passengers after securing the exits. They say it took minutes to confirm and secure the safest three exits out of eight because they knew the high heat around the main wings whose jet engines were on fire.
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True, but there are a lot of differences. – Firstly the certification requires them to evacute in 90 sec from 50% of the exits (which on an A350 is 4 of 8 exits). In this evacuation they could only use 2 1/2 exit. They started the evacuation only using the front 2 exits. Half way through they decided they could also open the back left exit. The 4 exits over the wings could not be used because this is where the fire was, and the back right exit was behind a running engine that was on fire. –
Secondly, the certification test is done with all adults, able bodied passengers, who knows the drill will start. I have seen these, and its almost like a sporting event with athletes sitting ready to run. Very far from a real life scenario.
There is no children, no elderly, no undisciplined passengers going for their luggage, no high heels, no disabled, no families trying to stay together, no panic, no fire, no smoke etc. etc. –
Thirdly, this plane had a collapsed front wheel, which meant that the emergency slides did not work correctly. The front was too low to the ground the back was too high. THis meant that people could not slide down and clear the slide fast enough in the front, where most people exited. Under these circumstances it is amazing they could do it in 96 seconds (assuming that reported figure is correct).
He said he “was not really scared.”
“Since we have landed already, I was thinking the plane probably won’t explode by this point. We should be fine as long as everyone gets off the plane in an orderly manner.”
The crew of Flight 516 have been praised for their speedy and cool-headed reactions that saved hundreds of lives.
Japan Airlines said the cabin crew used megaphones to direct passengers to safety after the plane’s inflight announcement system malfunctioned.
Reports from inside the plane say flight attendants urged people to remain calm and within seconds of the plane coming to a standstill, were able to deploy the escape chutes and usher passengers off.
“It’s too soon to comment on the specifics of the incident, but what’s clear is that the crew performed in an exemplary fashion,” said Steven Erhlich, chair of PilotsTogether – a charity set up in the pandemic to support crew.
He cited the fact that the passengers on the flight evacuated without taking their carry-on bags with them, which helped save lives.
He cited the fact that the passengers on the flight evacuated without taking their carry-on bags with them, which helped save lives.
