i had one where we had to evacuate the aircraft...

back in the old days when co had the $99 cross country fares in the early 80's, i was lax-hou-pbi on a co dc-10. the plane was about half full and i was sitting by the exit row. we rolled out and accelerated and accelerated and then WHAM! the captain locks up the brakes and announces, "evacuate, evacuate, evacuate, this is not a drill!" followed by the evac horn.

the f/a in the jumpseat opposite me yells at me to stand by the door and when she tells me to pull the handle, pull it as hard as i can. she yells, i pull and up goes the door and out pops the slide.

She's barking instructions and yells to me, "if the don't jump, push them!" and i did have to do that as one person froze.

After the pax had gone she yelled "jump" and i jumped.

at the bottom of the slide, we were told to run away from the aircraft and that's just what i did. when i finally turned to look back at the aircraft, the tail engine was belching balck smoke and was just about to be sprayed by the lax fire dept.

upon returning to the terminal and being checked for injuries, the captain got on the p/a at the gate and explained what happened...there was an oil leak where the oil dripped onto something hot in the engine with result being an engine fire and that's whay he aborted.

no one was hurt and talk about "the old days", in a matter of about 20 minutes, delta had re-ticked me lax-atl-pbi no questions asked.