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I saw this right before I went on holiday, then had forgotten about it until reading something in another thread this evening.
a Jet2 flight made an emergency landing at East Midlands airport due to a 'minor electrical fault', with passengers describing smell of burning and smoke in the cabin.
That though is not what the story became - the passengers were accusing the crew of losing control, and the media making a big thing about how the passengers were trapped because the crew "only opened the main doors at the front and rear", so some of the passengers chose to force open the doors onto the wings and helped each other run across the wings and drop down.
Now, perhaps the crew panicked and didn't handle it well, and the passengers also would have been panicking due to both the smoke/burning smell, and how the crew handled the situation. But that said, surely the worst thing you could do is ignore what the trained crew are doing (even if you don't think they're doing it right) and encourage other passengers in joining you on running about on top of the wing fuel tanks in a what you believe to be a burning plane that might still have engines running, and no 'proper' way to safely get to the ground and away from the aircraft?
Or should the crew normally open all doors and get people off as quickly as possible?
The airline later issued apologies to all passengers for lack of care:
a Jet2 flight made an emergency landing at East Midlands airport due to a 'minor electrical fault', with passengers describing smell of burning and smoke in the cabin.
That though is not what the story became - the passengers were accusing the crew of losing control, and the media making a big thing about how the passengers were trapped because the crew "only opened the main doors at the front and rear", so some of the passengers chose to force open the doors onto the wings and helped each other run across the wings and drop down.
Now, perhaps the crew panicked and didn't handle it well, and the passengers also would have been panicking due to both the smoke/burning smell, and how the crew handled the situation. But that said, surely the worst thing you could do is ignore what the trained crew are doing (even if you don't think they're doing it right) and encourage other passengers in joining you on running about on top of the wing fuel tanks in a what you believe to be a burning plane that might still have engines running, and no 'proper' way to safely get to the ground and away from the aircraft?
Or should the crew normally open all doors and get people off as quickly as possible?
The airline later issued apologies to all passengers for lack of care: