this comment doesn't make any sense.
I think it means that the front exit is so high, it needs a jetway at the gate. Nothing else, apparently, fits.
I couldn’t believe it when I saw the video. Why were NO doors opened or slides deployed?I could understand the rear doors not being opened, as that was the direction the fire/smoke was moving, but no reason the front doors were not opened. We were always taught to continue monitoring your exit because the conditions will change and an exit blocked by fire or smoke can become available. The overwing exits were initiated by a passenger…not sure of the AA jump seat layout, but usually no crew member is posted over wing.
I don’t know who this “aviation expert” is, but under no circumstance do you “wait for the jetway (or stairs) to pull up” before you evacuate the plane! The only time you evacuate off stairs or bridge is if they are already attached. What I saw was people standing on the wing and waiting for the jet stairs to pull up to the wing. Were the flaps not dropped so people could slide off? I thought that was the pilot responsibility? Not ideal, as it’s a long drop, but better than burning alive.
I don’t know…every plane accident is different and things are going to go wrong. When I was flying and SWA slid off the end of the runway at Burbank, we covered that crash in recurrent. They lost both rear exits because the FA didnt shove that door hard enough and the slide pack fell into the galley and inflated, blocking both exits. one of the front slides landed on a fire hydrant, rendering it unusable. so they had only one slide and the overwings to evacuate that aircraft.