Oh, chute! Flight attendant mistakenly deploys inflatable slide first day on job

nypost.com ^ | January 19, 2023 | Yaron Steinbuch

[SamAdams76]

This is a job for women. Of course the man screwed up. Men are not cut out to be stewardesses.

[Nea Wood]

If you’re having a bad day today, just think about this poor schmuck.

[AAABEST]

lol... this post is so you.

[Gay State Conservative]

They mean *last* day,don’t they?

[JPG]

File it under, ‘and you thought you had a bad day.’

[ncalburt]

Alex , I say Diversity hire for 100 please .

[Apparatchik]

British Airways, you say?

[drSteve78]

Friday the 13th fault.

[Boogieman]

This is why you gotta wear this shirt to the first day of your job:

[lowbridge]

Yeah, well.... ;-)

[bigbob]

Note to self: that lever does NOT open the storage closet.

[lee martell]

We don’t know who it was that made this error, but you can bet everybody with British Air knows, if they’re interested.
This event will follow that flight attendant for a long time.
His co-workers probably already have a few clever nicknames for him.

Sliding Clyde.
Wrong Door Terry Moore.
Big Mistake Johnny Tate.

[Renfrew]

“inexplicably opened an emergency door”

You don’t just open a plane door by accident. What was this guy thinking? Did he think it was the door to the bathroom?

[Gay State Conservative]

With all the times I've tried to swing that big lever over it never budged. Probably a good thing...we were always at 35,000 feet.

[ponygirl]

LOL... this happened to one of the guys in my training class after about 2 years on the line. I was amazed to see him featured in a video about the incident during our annual training. "He didn't lose his job????" Nope, because he had made it past the 6 month probation period. I expect this guy to lose his job.

Short version -- he was Chief Purser and while waiting for the jetway to be positioned, a passenger distracted him. When the CSR knocked on the window, he turned back to the door, forgetting he had not disarmed it, cranked the handle and almost blew the CSR down the ramp.

A replacement for a 777 slide probably runs into the $80,000 or more range. My friend blew a slide on the 757... cost $50,000 back in 1998. A 777 is a double-lane slide and much larger.

The funniest (strangest) part about this is that I think I took that plane out afterwards. I had shown up to my gate at Chicago and went down the jet bridge... when I got to the end, the mechanics told me I had to wait because they had to replace a slide. I looked down and saw the deflated slide hanging from the forward door. "What happened?" "Some guy busted the slide and nearly killed a gate agent." "OMG! Are they okay? Are we cancelled?" "Nope, we'll just swap it out." I watched them unhook the slide from the brackets, drop it down onto the tarmac, bring up a new slide pack, slide it into the door, lock it all up and done.

[Always A Marine]

"This is a job for women. Of course the man screwed up. Men are not cut out to be stewardesses."

My first thought was "Never hire a man to do a woman's job" -- but you beat me to the punch!

[AAABEST]

I miss your sidekick - the one you “married”... lol.

[DannyTN]

Practice makes perfect!

[markman46]

Well that is a true oh s*** moment I’d say