Originally Posted by Shiek Yiboudi

Just confirmed with another FA on that trip, there was NO smoke in the cabin or cockpit. NO FIRE indications of any kind from the airplane. He blew the bottles into BOTH engines and did an evac. Maybe he should have shut the engine down that had "black smoke" coming out of the tailpipe and the so called fire would have gone out.

I've heard from multiple sources that CFR DID indeed tell him to hold off on the evac. You can't document that it didn't happen and I can't document that it did. Your word against mine.

But the smoke in the cockpit and cabin is seriously and credibly DEBUNKED so the rest of your opinion hangs with it.

The guy had a smell.....that's it. Did an overweight landing, sat on the taxiway for a long time with NO indications of any problems OF ANY KIND on the airplane, much less a fire.

From the day this happened everyone I know, besides D.P. was saying this guy screwed up. You think it's me? You think that's speaking out of both sides of my mouth?


How do you defend this? Pick better battles. The dude evacuated a perfectly good airplane, NO SMOKE, NO ENGINE FIRE INDICATIONS, NO BELLS, NO WHISTLES.......no indication of any kind. So I should come to his rescue and say that he did the right thing?

The MD-80 is an old airplane, it makes funny noises and has funny smells, creaks, moans and groans....but it WILL tell you if there is a fire in the engine, the tailcone, the lavs and the FAs can see it in the cabin. It was a bad move. Stop acting like Allegiant was in the wrong to fire him.