banner-desktop banner-mobile

SKYbrary Articles


Are your airline's emergency evacuation procedures adequate for all potential scenarios?

26 Jul 2021
On 3 August 2018, smoke appeared and began to intensify in the passenger cabin but not the flight deck of an aircraft taxiing for departure at Helsinki. Cabin crew notified the Captain who stopped the aircraft and sanctioned an emergency evacuation. This then commenced whilst the engines were still running and inadequate instructions to passengers resulted in a completely disorderly evacuation. The Investigation attributed this to inadequate crew procedures which only envisaged an evacuation ordered by the Captain for reasons they were directly aware of and not a situation where the evacuation need was only obvious in the cabin.
Source SKYBRARY

Back