Jet Blue Emergency Landy - KLGB

[airbaker]

I'm going to disagree with you a little. Adding the rubber jungle unnecessarily, added an obstacle and served as a distraction to the actual evac. If they were really on fire in the cabin that could've cost precious seconds.

 

[Blue Dude]

They only had a few minutes to prepare for an evacuation. I don't know why they thought it was necessary to spend a good bit of that limited time messing around with masks. It didn't help and could easily have hurt. Didn't they have better things to do?

 

[B6Driver]

They don't understand that the o2 mask do nothing to save you from the smoke.
F/A's don't have the same system knowledge. 13 minutes from take off to touchdown, not a bunch of time to prep if you assume fire with all that smoke and you're worried about loss of life. Wait for the facts. I say great job folks.

 

[Blue Dude]

13 minutes from take off to touchdown, not a bunch of time to prep if you assume fire with all that smoke and you're worried about loss of life. Wait for the facts. I say great job folks.

Exactly my point. They went off-script to do something that couldn't help, could have hurt, and - worse - took much of their limited time away from their primary responsibilities. While they're busy making up their own procedure of releasing 50 PSU's manually with a key in a smoky and rapidly descending cabin, they're *not* preparing for an imminent, unplanned evacuation. Great job? We're so busy patting ourselves on the back that we forget that there's much here that didn't work well.

 

[B6Driver]

Big picture, no loss of life or aircraft=good day.
Should things be done differently next time, definitely!

 

[Daytonaflyer]

Turn off the engine bleed=No smoke in cabin. It's much easier to think when not in the heat of battle. Don't know if I would have thought of that in an emergency either.

 

[n757st]

It's part of the checklist. I'm sure they got to it, but you don't jump around all over the checklist to quickly get to the bleed. If a little smoke gets in, oh well.

 

[oldxfr8dog]

I'm going to disagree with you a little. Adding the rubber jungle unnecessarily, added an obstacle and served as a distraction to the actual evac. If they were really on fire in the cabin that could've cost precious seconds.

Excellent point!