Evacuation tests from jumbo airliners are simply bold-faced lies. In a disaster, most or all passengers will die. It's that simple. Even military air crews, who have gone through VERY tough survival training and who have to requalify every four years and who hold regular drills, lose people in a real surface emergency.
I highly recommend "Adak," by CAPT Andrew Jampoler.
Evacuation tests from jumbo airliners are simply bold-faced lies. In a disaster, most or all passengers will die. It's that simple. Even military air crews, who have gone through VERY tough survival training and who have to requalify every four years and who hold regular drills, lose people in a real surface emergency.
Not necessarily. Remember the Toronto crash last summer when everyone escaped safely? According to this story, four of the eight doors on the Airbus 340 failed, yet everyone got out. It's not common, but it can happen.