Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The debate is "expedited deplaning" via the jetway vs. "evacuation" via the slides.
Even without smoke in the cabin, it might be sketchy to direct the pax to exit via L1 and the jetway with a known significant fire in the noise. Especially given limited info from outside the airplane and lack of CFR.
You can see from the video that once people got on the ground, it was chaos. There's a lot of vehicles and airplanes moving that those people are not and the ground crew are not used to. Not too mention the injury potential of jumping from the door or falling from the wing.
I don't know what was going on in the cabin nor does anyone here at this point. But I do think a slide evacuation should be avoided at all cost if the 1L door is connected unless there was smoke in the cabin or there was fire near fuel sources.