Yup. Broken ankles probably. Any military rated parachutist understands the tradeoff between broken ankles and fast arrival on the ground.

However if you PLF off the slide, you risk the fat woman that was shoehorned into the seat next to you coming down behind you at the speed of heat.

Irony amuses me, that's all. I think I'm done with you now. Happy New Year.

Here's a video of the evac taken from a passenger's phone.

Slide Down The Escape Chute Of A Delta Jet

I still don't understand why they chose to evac because of a hot brake or how they got a hot brake to begin with? There's gotta be more to the story. The firefighters don't even seem to be too concerned with the gear since they're nowhere near it on the passenger's video. I wonder if the FA's initiated the evac? Odd stuff...

I found out recently that there was more to the story. The crew elected to evacuate based off information from the ARFF chief. He said that their right main gear was on fire and recommended an evacuation. 757-300 has no brake temp indicators on the status page, and only the brake overheat light on the forward panel. They had no light, but didn't want to take the chance so they evacuated. Looks like the crew made a good call, and the ARFF was full of it as there was no brake overheat and no fire as shown on the video.

Ah come on, I used to watch Delta's L1011's pull into the gate with the brakes on fire all the time. lol

Seriously though, what matters. Something went wrong the plane made it back on the ground and everyone is off the plane.

Success in my book, good job

True statement. You can only make decisions on the info you have at the time. They were told there was a fire, what were they supposed to do, wait around for verification? Hard to second guess a conservative/safe desicion that results in success.

Sounds like some are faulting the ARFF for a "safe, conservative" approach too.
The safe and conservative approach can be taken by everyone down the line and someone will question it at some point.

USMCFLYR