Stunning footage shows an Airbus A380 fully evacuated in 90 seconds This is what it looks like when 873 people scramble off a plane in 78 seconds. WHEN the cabin crew gives its safety demonstration at the start of a flight, do you ever ask yourself 'What would I really do if this thing went down?' Judging by how agonisingly slow some people are at boarding the plane, you must wonder how quickly they could vamoose in a real-life emergency. Well, under the US Federal Aviation Administration's and the European Aviation Safety Agency's regulations, any aircraft with a capacity of 45 people or more must be able to empty in less than a minute and a half, Quartz reports. For an Airbus A380, that means all 853 passengers and 20 cabin crew need to hightail it down those inflatable slides in fewer than 90 seconds. That's less than half the time it took Fiorente to win the Melbourne Cup last week. Watch it happen in this incredible video.