Originally Posted by Airsupport

They would have a hard time firing someone for delcaring an emergency and doing what needed to be done under pic authority to get those passengers off the plane safely. You could easily defend sending the fo out to marshal the plane in and taxiing the plane up single pilot. "Under pic authority and for the safety of the aircraft and my passengers I felt as captain that it was necassary for the fo to marshal us in and get us in a position to deplane the passengers while still protecting the plane from possbile structural damage. It was my professional opion that this was the safest and most reasonable option available at the time." At that point it is an emergency. No food, no water, no working toilets, women and children, all would add up to emergency pic authority.