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This is textbook stuff. this is what we're trained to do in an aborted situation. so they stopped the airplane, evaluated the situation, probably got an evaluation by the crash fire rescue people and from that point went through the checklist methodically. flight attendants were probably waiting for a command signal from the cockpit to evacuate the airplane or not. obviously we know what happened, they evacuated it. they began the process of opening up the slides, which are done automatically on this airplane. once those doors open, those slides automatically come out. and the crash fire rescu...

This is the way emergencies are supposed to go. if you abort a takeoff, you abruptly stop the airplane. you bring the throttles back, put it into idle. you bring the engines into reverse situation. now, why they aborted, we don't know. was it an engine fire. >> you know, les, let me jump in because the faa has just released a statement as we've been talking saying it was an aborted takeoff due to a left engine fire. >> okay. then the true did a tremendous job. they stopped the airplane. with an engine fire situation, this is textbook stuff. this is what we're trained to do in an aborted situat...