I will say this for the final time - your detailed, hostile examination of minor points is irrelevant to the main point here. The plane may have come to a stop

I will say this for the final time - your detailed, hostile examination of minor points is irrelevant to the main point here. The plane may have come to a stop in twenty seconds or thirty or thirty-five but that has no bearing on my argument. Both eight minutes and eighteen are too long to evacuate an aircraft on fire; a few seconds more or less are a rounding error. Your citation of AC797 is yet another example of important a rapid evacuation is: it took ninety seconds for the aircraft to flash over and kill the remaining souls on board. When seconds count, you don't have eight minutes or eighteen or seventeen-forty-five-and-three quarters. QF32 did not crash, it came down impressively softly - less than a quarter of the tires blew. FR5542 could be called a crash, I wouldn't, but you could. The landing of B6292 was described as "smooth". In those cases it would be obvious not to evacuate, but even if you did it would be hard to imagine even one death. To keep it simple - I have laid out several examples where delayed evacuation cost hundreds of lives. You have not managed to cite a single life lost by an evacuation triggered too early, not even one that would be lost in the various hypotheticals you posed. I think we simply have different conclusions about the relative risks involved here, and it will take a lot to convince each other, so it's probably best to leave this argument here.