Here is a link showing the evacuation of an A380. This airplane disgorged 873 people in 77 seconds.   So I’m thinking, what if you don’t have a planeload of orderly Germans who know how to get moving? What if you had a load of fat, jetlagged American touristas with expensive stuff in the overhead storage? You’d never get out of that airplane alive because some nimrod would have to get up and grab something out of the inside of a zipped bag, dooming everyone to incineration.

When one of these meat wagons eventually goes down, it is going to be like a small town got wiped out.  Like a screaming village falling out of the sky.  In a water landing, this thing is going to cartwheel like a drunken gymnast when a wing dips and grabs the water, and from the parts of the fuselage that shredded open will fly whole rows of horrified passengers, some still gripping their bags of pretzels.  The cabin sections will come to a halt and sink like a stone. 

Oh.  Well, I guess most of them do that.  Regardless, it ain’t gonna be pretty.

Here is a test of the braking system of the A380.  Ever wonder what happens when a big turbofan throws a blade?  The folks at Rolls Royce released this video of a test.  P&W released one as well.  This is what you try to avoid when working around jet engines.