"RT" wrote in message
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> Now let's see. Have I got this right?
> You have 350 people (in a sealed air-conditioned metal tube) who are about
OK to here
> to start disembarking via another metal tube, both tubes being about 2
> floors up.
No, the "other" tubes are Inflated comosite material.
> The ground staff tell you you have a fire in a brake assy - at ground
> level, obviously.
> So what do you do? You evacuate the passengers via emergency slides TO
> GROUND LEVEL WHERE THE FIRE IS and where presumably fire appliances are
> trying to gain access to it!
Better to leave them on board? and risk the fire spreading?
> He said passengers were not told why they had to evacuate and could not
> tell that anything was wrong from inside the plane.>
> Entirely typical for Qantas - tell passengers nothing.
They were told to evacuate, isn't that enough for a start?
> > Some relatives of passengers complained of unnecessary delays in
> informing
> >them what had happened.
> > Charles Knight, 44, had been waiting for his sister's family to arrive
> on
> >the flight when he first heard media reports that something was wrong.
> > He said his brother-in-law phoned him to say everything was okay but
> other
> >people waiting were unnecessarily alarmed. "I think there are some really
> >worried people here and I think it's quite unnecessary for that to be the
> case,
> >" he said.
>
> Entirely typical for Qantas - see above.
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