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If you had read about this story, you would know it was 18 minutes from the plane first touching the ground to being evacuated. This includes the time it spent careening down the runway with a massive fireball.

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I like this interpretation where one should only follow the placards, ignore the pilot and crew because they're untrustworthy, and open the door to an inferno and jump in.

The discrepancy between "can be evacuated in 90s in a simulated emergency" and "actually evacuated in 18min in real emergency with untrained members of the general public (with 100% survival despite the inferno)" just doesn't strike me as that problematic.

Exactly. Someone would have looked out the window, seen no apparent fire, and opened the slide right into a runaway engine

As someone commented, it was until the captain left the plane. I would assume that the captain could and would have left earlier if needed. I'm surprised how long he stayed with the fire.

The important measurement is time from plane stopping to passengers getting off.

One of the most important duties of a captain in an emergency is to make sure everyone else has been evacuated. His job is to be the last man off the vessel under such circumstances.

I have nothing but applause for the JAL crew, what they pulled off rivals the Miracle of the Hudson.

If you had watched video of this story, you would know that "the time it spent careening down the runway with a massive fireball" was measured in seconds.

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