In April 2006 I took part in the successful trial evacuation of an Airbus A380 at Hamburg as part of the type’s certification process, writes Kieran Daly.

Airbus showed that it could evacuate the full complement of 853 passengers plus crew in just 78s - 12s quicker than required.

In practice no airline customer for the A380 has plans to operate the aircraft at anything close to its maximum capacity, and there is little doubt that the more typical load of 450-550 passengers could easily be evacuated in 90s.

© PA AP Photos 2008 Airbus A380 - All out in 78 seconds

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