Emergency slide falls off Boeing plane, forcing LA-bound Delta flight to return to JFK

The New York Post ^ | 4/26/2024 | Larry Celona

[T.B. Yoits]

From yesterday (4/26) - looks like another failure of maintenance teams, leading to parts falling off airplanes.

[frank ballenger]

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/5dd9300a-24d5-4900-8880-b85b8d1572c9

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[woofer2425]

Don’t blame Boeing...the poor maintenance of airlines today is catching up with them.

[Jonny7797]

this is part of the greenie weenies fight against humanity.

[Uncle Lonny]

Fly with DEI. Die with DEI.

[dfwgator]

Don’t
Ever
Leave
The
Airport

[pfflier]

looks like another failure of maintenance teams, leading to parts falling off airplanes.

But the headline writers gotta get "Boeing" in there.

[Dick Bachert]

[TexasGator]

In service for almost 30 years.

[T.B. Yoits]

In service for almost 30 years.

Absolutely. It points toward the Didn't Earn It (DEI) maintenance contractors that hire incompetent technicians, and then don't check their work.

[TNoldman]

Someone(s) is/are trying to intentionally destroy Boeing Company!!!

[ridesthemiles]

EXACTLY

I GUARANTEE NONE OF THESE AIRLINE PEOPLE WORK ON NASCAR OR INDY CARS.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

The emergency slides are inside the doors/hatches, so they couldn’t “fall off” in the air.

[T.B. Yoits]

The emergency slides are inside the doors/hatches, so they couldn’t “fall off” in the air.

Chicago 2023:

Boston 2019:

Mesa Arizona 2016:

[T.B. Yoits]

I wonder if it was an "overwing" deployment emergency slide.

This picture shows a slide that's to the rear of the emergency hatch. Passengers would exit the emergency hatch over the wing, walk on the slide to the edge of the wing, and then slide down.

[teletech]

Capt: Uh may I have the check list for a missing chute?

[ponygirl]

The slide that fell off was the right wing emergency exit slide, located on the wing outside the window emergency exit. Pretty big deal, actually, and it has happened before.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

New one on me, but OK.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The Deep State still thinks there’s a chance Trump will get sidelined and Haley will get installed. Then when she runs they’ll use her time at Boeing to sink her campaign.