Kingairer
'Tiger Team' Member
At least for us, evac command comes from us, where to evac from comes from FAs
ATL-MSP.....And out come the slides
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Comes from us as well. HOWEVER….
However!
Let’s not discount the possibility of a passenger-initiated evacuation. Or it might have been a “this seems like a red emergency” and a flight attendant initiating it.
But if its flight attendant initiated, the answer is “I was pushed!”
However!
Let’s not discount the possibility of a passenger-initiated evacuation. Or it might have been a “this seems like a red emergency” and a flight attendant initiating it.
But if its flight attendant initiated, the answer is “I was pushed!”
Comes from us as well. HOWEVER….
However!
Let’s not discount the possibility of a passenger-initiated evacuation. Or it might have been a “this seems like a red emergency” and a flight attendant initiating it.
But if its flight attendant initiated, the answer is “I was pushed!”
I wonder, would a passenger initiated evac, though, cause all the other people at the other 9 exits to deploy also? I Suppose it’s possible.
Their asses are going in front of the big brown desk for that. Failed in their priorities.
Though on second thought, if they declared an emergency, they can deviate from all regs as necessary, including hat wear,
The general assumption in when something out of the ordinary happens for a passenger (say an RTO) and if one pops an exit, they’re all going to start popping exits so it’s probably better to manage the egress rather than stop it. They go pretty quick.
Cherokee_Cruiser
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GroundPilot
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I was working yesterday when it happened. My dispatched flight had one hell of a morning with the usual ATL woes when it comes to snow/ice. 77 min to the de-ice pad, exceeding HOT and then at the 2hr mark making their way to a gate they were held when the incident happened. They saw everyone making their way onto the runway/taxiways. What a mess. 45 min or so out in the snow/freezing rain must have sucked.
I really wish they’d send the DTW driving team to ATL when the crap hits the fan.
De-iced in DTW on Friday and I didn’t even have time to make my regular “VELOCIRAPTORS, RUN!” picture.
“driving” >> “deicing”?
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GroundPilot
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Captain said the de-icing crew was a mess. Type 1 then started up Type 4 and switched back to Type 1 again. It took forever and it was painful to watch.
De-icing. I type by “feel” so I’m sure I type “driving” more than “deicing” in an average day!
. I’m ARIZONAN!
Listening to the comms from the incident I'm not impressed with the ARFF crew's radio work. Tower initially tells them they don't see any smoke or fire, then fire chief in a half garbled and broken up chain of transmissions brings up "smoke" and "fire" a couple of times. The crew even asked for clarification and received a vague response from them. I can totally see how it's easy to pull the evacuation trigger with unclear messaging like that. Especially since so many of our sim sessions end exactly like that, with the fire crew telling us we're still on fire as a prompt to run the evacuation checklist. I'm personally a little more hesitant to evacuate as a general philosophy unless it's a cut and dry situation, but with unclear messaging like that it's difficult to think what I would have done in the heat of battle (or should I say cold of battle with that kind of weather). Better comms would have definitely made everything easier. Either way everyone got out safely so I'll say nicely done.
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Minuteman
I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING!
Yah, if it’s pax-initiated and no instruction comes over the PA … do I have to exit the plane?
Maybe just stay in a seat and wave to the people trying to climb back up the slide.
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
*hits call button to order another drink*
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Majestic af
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