Six passengers injured after engine failure forces evacuation of SWISS Delhi-Zurich flight - The Economic Times

Engine fire on SWISS Delhi-Zurich flight during take off roll; aircraft evacuated on runway | India News - The Times of India

in German:
Swiss-Flug LX147: Panik-Evakuation nach Triebwerksproblem in Delhi - 20 Minuten

Terrible, hoping for a speedy recovery for those injured, aborted takeoffs on roll are not nice, i was on a A340 ex ZUR & sadly one pax passed away.

Apparently "only" injuries from using the slides, like broken legs. Unpleasant, but fortunately likely not life-threatening in this case.

Fotos in Blick newspaper show pax with carry on as well as a flight attendant with carry on. 1R slide not deployed, probably expecting a moving stairwell. Rear left not deployed, there a moving stairwell was provided.

My key question is if the carry on luggage was retrieved after the evacuation. Probably not ...

The time that passed to assess the threat might have removed a sense of urgency, but for me this is a black or white situation. Either it is not urgent to exit, you get stairs, take your luggage. Or it is an evacuation as it was done here. Fire or not, pilot decided its urgent. Take your phone and passport (if you have time to grab before evacuation starts) but then its "out out out" as fast as possible. Nobody can know the reason for the evacuation. If its urgent, its urgent. Every bag selfishly endangers the people behind you. I cannot understand this behavior. Its not helpful to see an FA with bags after an emergency evacuation.

It will likely not go unnoticed at LX that an FA took the bag during an evacuation. Tough luck that she is on the front-page of Blick. Not the ideal performance in that situation, but I've flown with her and wish her that she doesn't get booted over this.

Do you have that photo by any chance? I can't find it on the website :/

Hey all,

I was on this flight and can answer more questions if you'd like. We did get our belongings back that were left on board, but it took about 7 hours for the final delivery (from the time of the incident). It was an awful experience but I think we're (at least I'm) trying to focus on being grateful that no one died and it could have been much worse.

SWISS and LHG at DEL have been pretty poor on communication; we'll see how that continues through the day (writing from the hotel they put us up in).

Cheers.

It was on blick.ch earlier.

Glad you are safe.

They probably had to get some things sorted first, but at least they put you up in a hotel! Hope you can relax a bit.

glad to hear you are safe

so was there a clear communication by the crew: emergency evacuation (without carry on) or leave the aircraft asap?

Yes, I heard the words "EVACUATE" spoken clearly multiple times as a direct order to everyone. I saw one crew member rip a carry on off a passenger about to go down a slide screaming "NO BAGS", but many rollaboards were still brought along regardless. The only detail I would add is the amount of time between the violent braking/stop and the order to evacuate. It was several minutes, or at least it felt so, that we sat there waiting for any communication. All I remember being announced during that time was instructions for crews to remain at their stations, and a reminder of that same instruction a couple of minutes later (I could see one of them walking about in the business class galley/area, which was surprising).

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I can't agree with that - no matter how good you are, such things can endanger other crew members or passengers. Will certainly be investigated

Will be investigated for sure, but doesn't mean she has to lose her job over this, could just be sent for retraining.

The time they took sounds excessive.

Concerning the crew member walking around: Could be in response to instructions by the cockpit crew to look out a window and check for fire, smoke etc. -- wouldn't be too unusual, as row one doesn't have a rear view mirror.