After landing, smoke filled the cabin and flames licked the windows, but the Japan Airlines crew got all 367 passengers safely off the aircraft in an orderly fashion and just in time.
the crew were able to initiate a textbook evacuation, locating the doors that were safe to open, that were not located near to active flames. and that s why not all of the doors we can see were open. not all of the evacuation slides were deployed, only the select doors. so that s the crew taking that decision with the correct decision then as to what to open and to open in order to initiate a fast and efficient evacuation. and sometimes that s not always the case. passengers can slow things down. there can be a lot of fear in the cabin. passengers can, by instinct, go to grab a passport or their bag from the locker. and all of that can really impact the success rate of the evacuation. what we ve seen here is a textbook evacuation. as we mentioned, the coast guard plane involved in that collision in tkyo was on a mission to deliver aid supplies following monday s