Originally Posted by
CREN
I hear ya and wonder if I would have opened the door as well as I usually sit in the emergency exit row on Southwest. Only one time a FA has told me wait for the "evacuate" call from the pilot before opening the door.
Gonna have to ask a FA Monday what the SOP is and what reality is. Of course, the pilot-in-command (PIC) is the ultimate authority. Just seems unlikely that in most "incidents" all the wiring, power, sensors, intercoms, etc. would be fully functioning to warrant a delay in having the pilots make the call as fast as possible. These guys don't have review mirrors to see what's going on in the tail 200'+ behind them.
BTW, anyone know if the nose wheel did really collapse or was it driven so hard into the wheel bay intact, rendering it useless?