Passengers evacuate during deicing

[swa737-700]

So much for a short PA to let the folks know that you are going to de-ice and what to anticipate as far as sounds,smells, and visuals. A little communication can go a really long way.

 

[SuperFLUF]

New ficticious situation: After single engine taxiing out in your A-321, you start the number 2 engine and a passenger thinks they see a puff of smoke. The passenger initiates a self evacutiion which creates a panic and all of those people near him start rushing the exits. The overwing exit slides are dumped and those slides right in front of the engine intakes are quickly poplulated with lemmiings sliding into running engines. Let the lawsuits begin...

Why would airbus design slides that drop near the engine intakes?

 

[30West]

Reason #214 flying freight rocks....

 

[embpic1]

Reason #214 flying freight rocks....

+1 :beer:

 

[Turtle21]

If 30% even listen to the PA you are way ahead... That leaves 70% to speculate about the "alarming smoke" outside the window (the one they were gazing out of and daydreaming while the PA sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher).

 

[Stifler's Mom]

An Aeroflot Airbus A321, flight SU780 from Krasnojarks to Moscow Sheremtyevo (Russia) with 200 passengers, was evacuated while deicing for takeoff was in progress. A passenger looking out of his window saw white clouds of smoke, thought the plane was on fire, panicked and thus created panic with the other passengers, too. The crew decided to give way to the resulting stampede, alerted the tower and initiated the evacuation.

The white smoke clouds were in fact steam from the deicing fluid.

Think of the mass hysteria if the hydraulic PTU was squealing too. :nuts:

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Phuukem we got their money!
PBR

 

[~~~^~~~]

I would have loved to have seen them jump out on the wing and get covered in all that snot-like fluid.

I'm sure all that crap all over the ground as well didn't exactly help prevent any injuries as they came off the slide-o-fun.

Hmmm smells like pancakes!

 

[j41driver]

When an aircraft sits overnight and fuel condensation builds on an engine,

Ah yes...the dreaded overnight fuel condensation.

In 1996, the crew was forced to shut down the left engine and land because of excessive fuel consumption.

Huh?

 

[tathepilot]

Maybe the Russian crew mistook the glycol mixture for the barrel of Smirnoff and that is what caused the fire?