Fire, or the threat of fire is by far the most common reason for evacuating an aircraft and was in fact the reason for evacuating this one. And again, the FA's have no way to predict what or where the threat will be before you even close the doors so don't be telling people in a pre-flight overwing exit brief which way to go once they exit the airplane in an evacuation. "Away" is all they need to know at that point and all they'll naturally do anyway.
pelmet wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:04 am There already is already something telling us which way to run....painted arrows and the safety card which it is well known fact does not get looked at. So why don't the F/A's point the direction out. The arrows must be there for a reason(basically directing you toward the easier escape direction using the flaps and possibly to keep you away from the inlet). They really should emphasize which way to go in my opinion.
That's to get out and off the airplane as quickly and safely as possible. After that it's anybody's guess. Even the arrows pointing to the back of the wing are incorrect if there's a raging fire there or a 50' dropoff into a raveen. We don't tell the FA's which side to evacuate on anymore either for much the same reason...we can't see what's back there better than they can.
Edit: See the Turkey 737-800 overrun accident for a graphic example of why you don't tell people in a pre-flight brief which way to run.