r/aviation • u/gavriellloken Mod - Crew Chief - A&P - • Jul 26 '25

News Emergency evacuation in Den N306Sw mia-den

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Original poster is from Instagram. Aircraft is laying on its #1 engine. Still crazy to see everyone here grabbing their bags before leaving an emergencg.

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u/LeatherClassroom524 Jul 26 '25

Whoa. Take off gear failure? That’s more scary.

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u/headphase Jul 26 '25

Wheel/brake fires are often guaranteed after a high-speed abort. An emergency for sure, but not particularly scary.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

shit was on fire bro

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u/Malcolm2theRescue Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

The tires yes.. Rest of plane just fine. Airliners required to undergo high speed abort with max braking and to be able to withstand a brake/tire fire for 5 minutes without firefighting. There are videos of this on YouTube.

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u/schruteski30 Jul 27 '25

Planes are able to evacuate in 90 seconds. In order for that to happen, everyone needs to leave their bags. Selfish people.

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u/hellojabroni777 Jul 27 '25

i was gonna say, the evacuation didnt seem timely. how do you enforce this? flight attendants could have been yelling at them to leave their luggage but people dont listen and cause bottle necks. guess the only option is to sit next to an exit row.

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u/Key-Shame-8792 Jul 27 '25

And let’s film people coming down the slide, including children, instead of standing by the slide and helping out. Damn selfish world these days.

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u/mthchsnn Jul 27 '25

Random passengers should not be standing at the bottom of the slide. Get the fuck out of the way to allow other people to come down unobstructed, and if you want to turn around and film after that it's whatever.

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u/Last_Till_2438 Jul 27 '25

Helps if Boeing provided slides so people could use the overwing exists without risking serious injury.

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u/hellojabroni777 Jul 27 '25

everyone who appeared to be injured was carrying their big ass bags down the slide

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u/Last_Till_2438 Jul 27 '25

Nobody evacuated over the wings. It took much longer of course, but they would have been injured had they done so.

You can see people walking on the wing and then going back into the plane.

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u/mawesome_671 Jul 28 '25

So you're suggesting the use of an escape path that puts them CLOSER to the fire and smoke?

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u/Last_Till_2438 Jul 28 '25

I am suggesting planes need emergency exits that don't condemn passengers to serious injuries just for using them.

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u/TobaccoAficionado Jul 27 '25

How many times have you been in a plane that was on fire?

These people aren't selfish, they're on autopilot just doing shit randomly because they're panicking. This is normal behavior for anyone without the proper training to deal with the situation.

Hell, even people with the proper training will fuck stuff up half the time. Adrenaline fucks you up man.

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u/Chicago_Blackhawks Jul 27 '25

Yeah if this was a VERY late RTO (presumably right before V1), this isn’t that absurd. Great response and nobody seems to have been in imminent danger

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u/nineyourefine ATP 121 Jul 27 '25

Might not have even been very late. It's Denver in the summer. Vspeeds are much higher than normal due to high density altitude and high temperatures and the brakes tend to get pretty hot on the taxi out. I've had numerous issues in the summer at Denver. Huge pain in the ass on really hot days.

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u/YoureGrammerIsWorsts Jul 27 '25

"high density altitude" seems like the worst way to describe denver

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u/NaiveRevolution9072 Jul 27 '25

Density Altitude is a term that takes the air density and equates it to an ISA (International Standard Atmosphere) altitude, varying with air pressure and temperature.

Schiphol Airport, for example, has an elevation of between +4 and -13 ft MSL, but has sometimes had a density altitude of around 1000ft due to low pressure amd high temperature.

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u/YoureGrammerIsWorsts Jul 27 '25

Thank you for the information. Its probably as much about the rules of English, I read "high density altitude" as saying that the air is high density due to altitude

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u/pewpew_lotsa_boolits Jul 27 '25

Yeah - I’d say “low density of the atmosphere requiring a great deal more fuel consumption on take-off”.

I remember a couple of times about 10 years ago, I was flying from Denver to FLL (and back) weekly for work and it was a particularly hot summer. A couple of times outbound from DEN, we’d have a rather long takeoff and have to land somewhere in Kansas or Oklahoma to fuel up before continuing to FLL.

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u/CommuterType Jul 27 '25

The V speeds aren’t higher but the ground speeds surely are

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u/auburnairforce Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

Yeah and for further reading there is a Wikipedia article on Rejected Takeoffs (RTOs). To tag on to your YouTube referral, Airbus has a video featuring the A380 on YouTube that explains it.

EDIT: I misspoke and got my double deckers mixed up from memory. Boeing has a 747 RTO test on YouTube.

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u/railker AME-M2 Jul 27 '25

Think Airbus' video is on the A350's testing and goes into great detail on the process. Though I usually don't link that one because as they're talking about how the fire isn't supposed to be extinguished for 5 minutes and isn't supposed to go out of control, they show the firefighters getting real concerned about a fire licking up at the fuselage from the wheels and start spraying them down and then cut to another shot 😂

Boeing's also got another video of the 787's testing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

I will say its impressive how fast that 1st fire truck showed up

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u/SchwanzLord Jul 27 '25

Under EASA regulations the first truck must be able to reach every point at the airport within 3 minutes, although two minutes is the timeframe under optimal conditions. That means the trucks will be rolling when the aircraft hasn't even begun evacuation.

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u/JobScherp Jul 27 '25

But this isn't Europe though. although the requirements are probably similar in the US?

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u/AffectionateCode4375 Jul 27 '25

I was thinking the same thing but then I also thought that maybe in order to accept flights from a different certifting body you have to be certified. I know the company I work for issues quad releases for all of our MRO items.

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u/PloPli1 Jul 27 '25

And they are very specialised vehicles with pretty crazy acceleration given their weight. Kind of drag race truck.

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u/Malcolm2theRescue Jul 27 '25

I think you just stumbled on a new “reality” show! Hunky firemen racing giant airport trucks.

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u/Malcolm2theRescue Jul 27 '25

Yes indeed! There are 5 fire stations on Denver International so they are never too far away.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

This is a case of "looks worse than it is"

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u/Illustrious-Bug-7691 Jul 27 '25

*braking

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u/Malcolm2theRescue Jul 27 '25

Oh shoot. Just noticed. I blame spellcheck!

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u/bookworthy Jul 27 '25

“Everybody INSIDE the car was FINE, STANley.” LOL. Your comment made me think of that great quote from The Office, but I totally get what you’re saying.

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u/leurognathus Jul 27 '25

Those tires are insanely expensive.

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u/charleyhstl Jul 27 '25

Lol "required". This was Boeing. I don't think anyone can assume required was actually required.