Originally Posted by
NonSmokingWindow
I thought the main issue with the SV accident was that the flight crew didn't depressurise the aircraft making it impossible to open the doors. Maybe I'm misremembering.
The relevant point, for the purposes of the question "Why did the crew stop the aircraft and evacuate on the runway?" is:
Factors contributing to the fatal results of this accident were 1) the failure of the captain to prepare the cabin crew for immediate evacuation upon landing and his failure in not making a maximum stop landing on the runway, with immediate evacuation ...