The following invention relates to occupant recovery from an armoured land vehicle, and to a system for occupant recovery. A method of removing an occupant to be extracted from an armoured land vehicle comprising the steps of deploying an elongate chute from a first stowed position to a second deployed position, wherein the second deployed position provides a facile transit path such as to avoid one or more protruding features in said armoured land vehicle, manoeuvring the occupant via the elongate chute, to avoid the one or more protruding features, to a designated access point, removing the occupant from the access point of the armoured land vehicle.