A Delta Air Lines flight that departed from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City was forced to make an emergency return to the airport Friday morning after an emergency slide came apart from the Boeing 767, the airline said. A search for the slide was ongoing.

“After the aircraft had safely landed and proceeded to a gate, it was observed that the emergency slide had separated from the aircraft,” a Delta spokesperson said in a statement to NPR Friday afternoon.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I guess I don’t understand how these things are stored, because it’s not like they are saddle bags. Seems weird they couldn’t fall out? Off? Did a whole compartment on the side open and dislodge the contents? How weird.

    • teamevil@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I mean just going off bullshit and what not, I’d venture to guess the deployment is handled by device be it air tank or what ever assists the slide deployment could have failed…the timing is curious

      • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I guess that makes sense. Maybe it didn’t so much as fall off as it got torn off because it deployed.

  • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Genuine question: Are these sorts of issues actually happening more frequently now, or are they just getting reported on more broadly due to the bigger issues with Boeing planes earlier this year? I feel like every week there’s a new article about stuff falling off of Boeing planes, whereas until recently it seemed like we’d go months without this sort of news.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      You know it’s the second. This is the current hot topic, so every little thing is reported as some sort of breaking news story for clicks.

      Now that you’ve noticed it this time, look out for it everywhere else. It happens ALL the time with EVERY topic that they could conceivably get more clicks from.

      If you ever think, “Huh, there’s been a lot of news about X recently”… that’s probably not because X is happening more often, it’s just being reported on more.

    • Silverseren@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      It does happen all the time. It is a problem that it happens all the time. These planes aren’t made with proper quality control checks in place and are far less safe than the airlines have been claiming for years.

      The extra scrutiny from the news is a good thing.

    • ndx@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      If it was the second wouldn’t we hear about more airbus incidents too ?

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, I’d love to see some year over year data of emergency landings / returns, the mechanical issues, and the brand.

      I’m curious about how much of this attention is deserved and how much is just confirmation bias.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
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      6 months ago

      Personally I think it’s a bit of both. There’s definitely issues with Boeing build quality and maintenance right now. But also, of course any incident involving Boeing is more newsworthy for that reason.

    • Cap@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      You can go to this FAA Link and view "Records of Accidents and Incidents. Takes a bit to learn to interpret the data but there are a lot of incidents. If I recall it includes both commercial and general aviation.

      Edited because I can’t English properly.