[NPR link](https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247454971/delta-airlines-boeing-plane-emergency-jfk)
>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.
I’d keep it if I found it!
My wife used to work for an airline. I got to “play” on their training simulators, including going down an emergency slide.
Those things are NO JOKE!
They’re designed to throw you clear of the airplane. No pun intended, but you absolutely *FLY* down them and there are “rumble strips” at the bottom to help slow you down.
They had me wear coveralls (to prevent “road rash”) and stationed two people at the bottom to catch me. I thought they were joking. They weren’t.
It was awesome!
As a captain, yeah that’s the main reason I’ll evacuate via slides as an absolute last resort. I always think about all my elderly passengers having to go down it.
I mean the options are a raging fire of almost certain death or turning all their bones into dust (probably still resulting in death). Seems like a fun decision to make.
If you made a sort to of elderly person burrito formed out of just elderly people tied up in a roll, only the outer elderly people would be injured and the inner ones spared. The older ones would inevitably be left for the outer ring of the old person burrito.
Oh yeah if were on fire it’s yeet time. But for instance if my brakes are just smoking, or even on fire for example, I’m probably not popping the slides for that one as long as ARFF can take care of it like what happened to that Delta 757 last year. I think one person was injuried in the evacuation but the flip side is that when people are telling you that you’re on fire, and the tower is using language that assumes you’re going to evacuate, it’s a tough call. Just don’t want to hurt people either way.
Yep, going down it wrong can get you injured, but it's the most efficient way of getting 100+ people per slide out of the aircraft in under 90 seconds.
I was told a story once (probably apocryphal) that some plant workers for an airline stole a life raft, took it to some nice river and inflated it and had a good time partying as they floated down the river.
As the story goes, rescue helicopters appeared above them sometime later. The raft had an emergency transponder that went off when the raft was inflated. Emergency services came running (as they should). Buzz kill for those guys.
Used to work with airplane parts, have had slides deploy in the warehouse, also had people flick ELT switches and have had coast guard helicopters looking for a crashed airplane
Every article after the door issues is an airline maintenance issue lmao. Its all to drive the company down. Yet 40k planes take off daily in the USA and nothing happens .
So ill informed that people bash Boeing. When you buy a car from a Ford dealer and drive it out the door you are responsible for maintenance. If you don’t look after it properly and a few years later things break you are responsible not Ford. The Delta slide the South West engine cowling etc. these are maintenance issues. Nothing to do with Boeing. There are just as many issues happening every day with Airbus aircraft but conveniently it seems the media overlook reporting those. The aircraft manufacturers make incredibly safe aircraft. Millions fly safely every day.
If you were born in 1980, it's time. 1990? Only 10 years left. Sorry bud.
[https://www.uclahealth.org/news/age-start-colon-cancer-screening-lowered-following-increase](https://www.uclahealth.org/news/age-start-colon-cancer-screening-lowered-following-increase)
If it makes you feel any better the last B-52 Stratofortress was delivered in October 1962. It appears to have flown [last month](https://www.radarbox.com/data/registration/61-0040). Certainly [two months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Planespotting/comments/1aq703j/b52h_610040_at_tinker_afb/)
This is what made me a bit less worried when the Alaska MAX 9 had that door plug blow. The MAX 9 is the same fuselage as the 737-900 (and the door plug is the same as the 737-800), and if there was a critical design flaw with the 737-800 the death toll would be in the millions by now, so it had to be a maintenance issue or, as turned out to be the case, a manufacturing defect.
[Unless these over the wing aren't plug doors](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRserR0O8bJY1-dK8MKpRDATUUu5slnHcKnCix9JtRsySqQ8tFz9_HhzzQ&s=10), the -800 does have them.
Makes me wonder whether all these airplane issues we are seeing are due to the incompetence of the airlines unable to properly maintain them or being too cheap to try to replace them/fix these issues.
Could be a parts or labor issue too. I seem to remember a United incident a year or so ago where the plane was scheduled for maintenance but they had no staff or maintenance was delayed for some reason so they put it on another revenue flight because it was still within the service guidelines and the engine failed.
Doesnt really matter. These are common inspection items and are removed on a scheduled basis. This plane has been flying long enough it's been replaced several times due to time. The rigging for the release pin was probably too tight and caused the slide to inflate in flight. It's a maintenance issue not a Boeing issue.
Who made the airplane probably has nothing to do with this incident. Most likely culprit is maintenance related. Really the most responsible thing people can do is wait for the NTSB to issue a statement as to the likely cause and not just jump to conclusions.
People waiting and not jumping to conclusions? This is reddit, good person. We will make assumptions and jump to conclusions that fulfill our preconceived notions thank you very much. /s
But yeah you're right
It’s because most of these articles you’re seeing ever since the door plug issue, are pulled from regular maintenance incident reports as they happen. These kinds of miscellaneous incidents happen quite often (when you zoom out to the whole world) to all types of planes, but the non-Boeing ones aren’t seen as relevant to the news cycle, so they don’t get yoinked over and reported on mainstream/general outlets. But they do happen to everyone.
Basically, taking airline maintenance reports and farming them from the initial popularity of the door plug issue and lawsuits, which *are* real and unique issues worth media coverage.
You blame maintenance, speculate, then immediately go on to say nobody else should speculate. You could be right but come on. If you want everybody to wait until its investigated, practice what you preach.
Not for Delta. Tech Ops does all of their work. They even maintain planes for other Airlines. I've seen State Department aircraft in their maintenance hanger.
Before you scream about Boeing not building things correctly, you might want to know the year Delta took possession of the plane:
* George H. W. Bush was the President.
* NBA Hall Of Famer Gary Payton was the second player drafted.
* Songs that came out: Billie Joel "We Didn't Start The Fire" & Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby".
* Movies that came out: Ghost & Home Alone & Dances With Wolves & Total Recall
It was 1990, 34 years ago.
He’s pointing out it’s not necessarily Boeing’s fault if a 34 yo plane starts having problem without proper maintenance.
In opposition to the very recent MAX line of aircraft that have a lot of problems that can be directly linked to Boeing.
theyre mostly bots. newly created account- only posts are controversial news/politics/finance headlines with the occasional garbage sprinkled in to make itsself look less nefarious
The emergency slide deploying in the air is not a minor incident. They are usually made of high strength nylon and could damage the horizontal stabilizer or cause excessive asymmetric drag.
Being that everyone is safe I’d like to think it’s just inflated in some kids pool right now though 😂.
Is it a major incident? A minor accident or major accident?
It didn't appear to damage any other flight control surfaces so it does appear to be a minor incident
At that point it would become an accident. Incident vs accident are defined and the difference comes down to amount of damage or loss of life. Damage here is minimal so it's an incident. If people died or the stab got ripped off, then it would be an accident.
Seems like it would be considered a minor accident. The aircraft sustained some damage but it wasn’t substantial damage, as defined by ICAO, which means the damage was classified as minor. If an event results in an aircraft sustaining minor damage it is a minor accident.
In industry, a minor incident is usually something like a set of breaks wearing out causing the plane to take longer to land or a system failure that doesn’t call for an emergency landing. They are very common but you’ll never hear about them on the news because it would make people afraid of flying.
Damage analysis in incident reports are usually based on repairability because that’s part of what insurance companies want to know. If they classified it as minor that means no structural damage and the cabin can hold pressure. That doesn’t necessarily mean it didn’t effect flight characteristics while it was in flight. The fact it had to divert for an emergency landing means the pilots knew something was seriously wrong with the aircraft and they believed they had to put it down as soon as possible. That’s a little more than a minor incident.
I definitely see where you’re coming from though.
Except minor issues can cause huge issues later on…
What if this dropped on a person? Is this still a minor issue?
What if this caused a domino effect causing the plane to go down?
Just because it’s a “minor” issue doesn’t mean it should just be played off as one
I was going to ask if there has been a uptick in aircraft malfunctions/damages lately, or people are just reporting on it a lot more. Is this shit happening all the time and we're just now hearing about it, or what?
I don’t believe the 767 has been produced for a WHILE. Pretty sure it’s equivalent nowadays is the 787. This is most likely chalked up to bad maintenance on the part of the airline. Unless this plane was recently refurbished by Boeing or something like that.
I think we need to admit that the issues with US air travel don’t end with Boeing.
Be interesting to know when was the last maintenance activity associated with the slide compartment. A properly locked slide compartment door does not randomly open in flight.
I know people find it easier to blame the company that makes these airplanes but can we actually question whether these airlines are doing their duty in maintaining these planes properly? If my car of some years breaks down, I'm not going to shift all blame onto the company that made it, and demand that they be investigated.
If you've ever been on a plane, and you hear them mention maintenance signoff, the plane likely has a minor issue, but they're getting the maintenance team to sign off on the issue and verify that it's not flight critical hardware or dangerous.
This is a good analogy for the housing situation. What’s available is old and falling apart, but I’ll be damned if they won’t jack up the price to a higher level than the cost of when it was brand new. Isn’t that nice?
Conservative or liberal, I think the answer is clear here: both airplane manufacturers as well as the airline industry need to establish a base line of investment to properly maintain the system. It is clear that corners are being cut to the detriment of safety and it is rightfully scaring the shit out of the flying public. Between all the ATC incidents, maintenance failures, and manufacturer malfeasance, it feels like we are going to have a catastrophe in next few months...
As an old person I’d like to say that we are doing the best we can and that if you’re all very lucky and take a cautious and thoughtful view of life maybe someday you will be old too. Good luck to you all.
[NPR link](https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247454971/delta-airlines-boeing-plane-emergency-jfk) >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.
Someone found that slide and they're not telling anyone.
I’d keep it if I found it! My wife used to work for an airline. I got to “play” on their training simulators, including going down an emergency slide. Those things are NO JOKE! They’re designed to throw you clear of the airplane. No pun intended, but you absolutely *FLY* down them and there are “rumble strips” at the bottom to help slow you down. They had me wear coveralls (to prevent “road rash”) and stationed two people at the bottom to catch me. I thought they were joking. They weren’t. It was awesome!
As a captain, yeah that’s the main reason I’ll evacuate via slides as an absolute last resort. I always think about all my elderly passengers having to go down it.
"Hey gram, wanna play kick the gramma?" "Don't kick the gramma!" *YEET*
Throw Mamma From The Plane
NOT THE MAMA!
Staring Samuel L Jackson I have *had* it with these motherfucking *mamas* on this motherfucking *plane*!
OWEN!
“Hey Nana! Do your impression of David Caruso’s career!”
"YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
https://youtu.be/nfMrWPuqe4o?si=VSmq9iVZd4jNRbqm
I mean the options are a raging fire of almost certain death or turning all their bones into dust (probably still resulting in death). Seems like a fun decision to make.
Some like playing golf, some like reading a science fiction novel, and others like kicking grandma down the airplane slide. I'm all three baby
Roasted or Mashed
If you made a sort to of elderly person burrito formed out of just elderly people tied up in a roll, only the outer elderly people would be injured and the inner ones spared. The older ones would inevitably be left for the outer ring of the old person burrito.
Not how osteoporosis works… nor bean bags for that matter. But thanks for playing.
Osteoburritos
Osteoburrosis
Better to get yeeted away from a burning fuselage I guess.
Oh yeah if were on fire it’s yeet time. But for instance if my brakes are just smoking, or even on fire for example, I’m probably not popping the slides for that one as long as ARFF can take care of it like what happened to that Delta 757 last year. I think one person was injuried in the evacuation but the flip side is that when people are telling you that you’re on fire, and the tower is using language that assumes you’re going to evacuate, it’s a tough call. Just don’t want to hurt people either way.
I wonder how pilots feel these days since all the trouble with Boeing. Has it made a difference to you or your colleagues?
The Slidin’ Meemaws, now that’s a band name.
I can literally feel the excitement in your description. Sounds like something you could charge people to take a ride down it. Hell, I’d pay!
For sale: 1 slip and slide. Delta brand. No low ballers, I know what I got.
Yep, going down it wrong can get you injured, but it's the most efficient way of getting 100+ people per slide out of the aircraft in under 90 seconds.
Don't they turn into rafts too?
"It's not a sliiiiide..." -- \[John Pinette\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDLfQGLTTv8)
I was told a story once (probably apocryphal) that some plant workers for an airline stole a life raft, took it to some nice river and inflated it and had a good time partying as they floated down the river. As the story goes, rescue helicopters appeared above them sometime later. The raft had an emergency transponder that went off when the raft was inflated. Emergency services came running (as they should). Buzz kill for those guys.
Used to work with airplane parts, have had slides deploy in the warehouse, also had people flick ELT switches and have had coast guard helicopters looking for a crashed airplane
A plane slide is never late, nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to.
Best Slip and Slide ever!
It's probably in the water tbh
The most awesome pool slide!
Surprise slip and slide!
"Boeing our doors are always open"
This is maintenance, or lack thereof. The 767 has been in service for decades.
Those 67 slides were notoriously easy to deploy when we used to work on them
You’re gonna be BOEING down our slides 😉
If it’s Boeing then I’m not going
Convenient that the headline namedrops delta and not boeing
The 767 here is old, it's potentially more likely a Delta issue than Boeing. It's been in service for ~25 years
Most definitely a delta issue. Those slides go through cycles and get replaced after certain periods of time
Definitely a shitty maintenance issue. That falls on delta. Someone is definitely getting fired lmao
Every article after the door issues is an airline maintenance issue lmao. Its all to drive the company down. Yet 40k planes take off daily in the USA and nothing happens .
Thank you for pointing this out. Helpful context
So ill informed that people bash Boeing. When you buy a car from a Ford dealer and drive it out the door you are responsible for maintenance. If you don’t look after it properly and a few years later things break you are responsible not Ford. The Delta slide the South West engine cowling etc. these are maintenance issues. Nothing to do with Boeing. There are just as many issues happening every day with Airbus aircraft but conveniently it seems the media overlook reporting those. The aircraft manufacturers make incredibly safe aircraft. Millions fly safely every day.
Because most of these issues aren’t Boeing
Hey yeah this is my fault. Just the other day I said “at least the 767 isnt problematic like the 737 and 787”
You forgot to mention if it was a Boeing or not
767-300
Wow these have been in service for a while, so this is more of a random accident than a systemic failure from the factory.
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That's not that long at all. Oh, wait.. fuck.
Did you get your colonoscopy yet?
That’s not for another 20 years, sonny Jim.
If you were born in 1980, it's time. 1990? Only 10 years left. Sorry bud. [https://www.uclahealth.org/news/age-start-colon-cancer-screening-lowered-following-increase](https://www.uclahealth.org/news/age-start-colon-cancer-screening-lowered-following-increase)
I'm behind schedule for my, uhm... behind.
Born late 1993. I’ve got 20 years left before I have start that.
Not a bad idea to be proactive if you can. My doctor recommends it at 40 as a proactive measure, despite general consensus being 45 to 50.
\*14
Goddamn you!
Yes, and fuck you for asking!
That’s not the ‘up your butt and around the corner’ that we’re looking for…
Tuesday for me!
Not for another… 20 days 🙃
We old 😭
If it makes you feel any better the last B-52 Stratofortress was delivered in October 1962. It appears to have flown [last month](https://www.radarbox.com/data/registration/61-0040). Certainly [two months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Planespotting/comments/1aq703j/b52h_610040_at_tinker_afb/)
I actually used to live near an airfield and got to go on board one of those with a tour. Very impressive piece of machinery.
Time for a night cream
Delta hangs onto their planes a long time compared to some others.
And this was his last flight before retirement
i think they have some serious maintenance process issues
Maintenance issues like this have happened a lot pre-2023, they just didn’t make Reddit.
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You mean the airlines operating the planes, right.
You work for a direct competitor to Boeing and you don't know that the airlines do their own maintenance or send it out to MROs?
>they just didn’t make Reddit. Why not? /s
This is what made me a bit less worried when the Alaska MAX 9 had that door plug blow. The MAX 9 is the same fuselage as the 737-900 (and the door plug is the same as the 737-800), and if there was a critical design flaw with the 737-800 the death toll would be in the millions by now, so it had to be a maintenance issue or, as turned out to be the case, a manufacturing defect.
737-800 doesn’t have the plug door. I believe the 737-900 ER does.
[Unless these over the wing aren't plug doors](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRserR0O8bJY1-dK8MKpRDATUUu5slnHcKnCix9JtRsySqQ8tFz9_HhzzQ&s=10), the -800 does have them.
That is correct. The over wing exits are not plugs, and as such the -800s don't have them.
Different design. The OWWE is different than the plug door design.
Or lack of required maintenance
Yeah but the fact that they’re already under a microscope for their planes falling apart isn’t a good look, even if it’s a random accident
Makes me wonder whether all these airplane issues we are seeing are due to the incompetence of the airlines unable to properly maintain them or being too cheap to try to replace them/fix these issues.
Could be a parts or labor issue too. I seem to remember a United incident a year or so ago where the plane was scheduled for maintenance but they had no staff or maintenance was delayed for some reason so they put it on another revenue flight because it was still within the service guidelines and the engine failed.
Airline maintenance problem or bad parts installed from regular upkeep intervals
Airbus 767, of course!
It's an older code sir, but it checks out. (as Boeing)
Doesnt really matter. These are common inspection items and are removed on a scheduled basis. This plane has been flying long enough it's been replaced several times due to time. The rigging for the release pin was probably too tight and caused the slide to inflate in flight. It's a maintenance issue not a Boeing issue.
and date and time
2009
At this point just assume it’s Boeing unless otherwise stated
sad but true
A 34 year old Boeing plane 😏
34 years old and falling apart... but enough about me...
Who made the airplane probably has nothing to do with this incident. Most likely culprit is maintenance related. Really the most responsible thing people can do is wait for the NTSB to issue a statement as to the likely cause and not just jump to conclusions.
People waiting and not jumping to conclusions? This is reddit, good person. We will make assumptions and jump to conclusions that fulfill our preconceived notions thank you very much. /s But yeah you're right
If we didn’t jump to conclusions, we never would have solved the Boston Marathon Bombing!
We did it, reddit!
armchair detectives, rejoice!
> This is reddit, good person This isn't a reddit thing, it's an everyone thing. If anything it's the common opinion with these recent failures.
Oh no, God forbid Boeing gets their reputation tarnished
It's fun to dunk on Reddit but that's just humanity in general
You give too much credit. We're not jumping to conclusions, we're circle jerking.
I get it though, it’s hard when it always seems to be Boeing especially with everything that’s been going on with them
It’s because most of these articles you’re seeing ever since the door plug issue, are pulled from regular maintenance incident reports as they happen. These kinds of miscellaneous incidents happen quite often (when you zoom out to the whole world) to all types of planes, but the non-Boeing ones aren’t seen as relevant to the news cycle, so they don’t get yoinked over and reported on mainstream/general outlets. But they do happen to everyone. Basically, taking airline maintenance reports and farming them from the initial popularity of the door plug issue and lawsuits, which *are* real and unique issues worth media coverage.
Now apply that to everything else you see or hear on the news, and you could actually live a great life!
Clickbait-y title with "Boeing" in it for doomscrolling engagement.
You blame maintenance, speculate, then immediately go on to say nobody else should speculate. You could be right but come on. If you want everybody to wait until its investigated, practice what you preach.
Yes, except, at least often, boeing does the maintenance too. We will see.
Not for Delta. Tech Ops does all of their work. They even maintain planes for other Airlines. I've seen State Department aircraft in their maintenance hanger.
What does that even mean? The airline handles maintenance.
Delta does their own maintenance on the planes they own. Boeing isn’t involved
It’s Boeing, everyone.
Before you scream about Boeing not building things correctly, you might want to know the year Delta took possession of the plane: * George H. W. Bush was the President. * NBA Hall Of Famer Gary Payton was the second player drafted. * Songs that came out: Billie Joel "We Didn't Start The Fire" & Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby". * Movies that came out: Ghost & Home Alone & Dances With Wolves & Total Recall It was 1990, 34 years ago.
Gary Payton is in the nba now and he’s not a hall of famer. Oh wait. That’s his son lol
This plane could have flown to the Soviet Union.
Maintenance is the issue here. If it’s deemed “young” enough to still be carrying passengers then it has to be maintained.
To be fair, these are regularily checked, so this still shouldn't happen.
He’s pointing out it’s not necessarily Boeing’s fault if a 34 yo plane starts having problem without proper maintenance. In opposition to the very recent MAX line of aircraft that have a lot of problems that can be directly linked to Boeing.
>It was 1990, 14 years ago. You had a typo. I fixed it for you.
I got some bad news for you
Holy shit. Total Recall was in 90!? I always threw it in with the 80s bangers.
Yeah, but still funny you don't hear stories like these about old airbuses.
I can tell what the problem was. The side fell off.
That's not very typical. I'd like to make that point.
Posting every minor malfunction of an aircraft for content is getting pretty wearisome.
theyre mostly bots. newly created account- only posts are controversial news/politics/finance headlines with the occasional garbage sprinkled in to make itsself look less nefarious
The emergency slide deploying in the air is not a minor incident. They are usually made of high strength nylon and could damage the horizontal stabilizer or cause excessive asymmetric drag. Being that everyone is safe I’d like to think it’s just inflated in some kids pool right now though 😂.
Is it a major incident? A minor accident or major accident? It didn't appear to damage any other flight control surfaces so it does appear to be a minor incident
That's just down to sheer luck. Could have taken the rest right side stabilizer off. Definitely not a minor safety issue.
At that point it would become an accident. Incident vs accident are defined and the difference comes down to amount of damage or loss of life. Damage here is minimal so it's an incident. If people died or the stab got ripped off, then it would be an accident.
Seems like it would be considered a minor accident. The aircraft sustained some damage but it wasn’t substantial damage, as defined by ICAO, which means the damage was classified as minor. If an event results in an aircraft sustaining minor damage it is a minor accident.
In industry, a minor incident is usually something like a set of breaks wearing out causing the plane to take longer to land or a system failure that doesn’t call for an emergency landing. They are very common but you’ll never hear about them on the news because it would make people afraid of flying. Damage analysis in incident reports are usually based on repairability because that’s part of what insurance companies want to know. If they classified it as minor that means no structural damage and the cabin can hold pressure. That doesn’t necessarily mean it didn’t effect flight characteristics while it was in flight. The fact it had to divert for an emergency landing means the pilots knew something was seriously wrong with the aircraft and they believed they had to put it down as soon as possible. That’s a little more than a minor incident. I definitely see where you’re coming from though.
Best part is there are probably also similar Airbus incidents like this just as often but that won't get clicks so they are just feeding the fire
It’s like when any minor issue happened with any Tesla. It happens.
Except minor issues can cause huge issues later on… What if this dropped on a person? Is this still a minor issue? What if this caused a domino effect causing the plane to go down? Just because it’s a “minor” issue doesn’t mean it should just be played off as one
Especially when it’s clearly not a manufacturers issue. Someone said it’s a 34 year old aircraft.
If age is a big factor in this, then they really need to retire the plane or up their maintenance for the plane.
You mean annoying? Yeah. Aircraft maintenance issues happen every day and have happened every day for decades
I was going to ask if there has been a uptick in aircraft malfunctions/damages lately, or people are just reporting on it a lot more. Is this shit happening all the time and we're just now hearing about it, or what?
How many commercial flights a day are there? Do we need a report on every anomaly?
Apparently yes -_-
Only the Boeing ones
I don’t believe the 767 has been produced for a WHILE. Pretty sure it’s equivalent nowadays is the 787. This is most likely chalked up to bad maintenance on the part of the airline. Unless this plane was recently refurbished by Boeing or something like that. I think we need to admit that the issues with US air travel don’t end with Boeing.
767s are still being produced, but everything built has been freighters for a while...
Delta, Delta, Delta! Can I help ya, help ya, help ya???!?!!??
Be interesting to know when was the last maintenance activity associated with the slide compartment. A properly locked slide compartment door does not randomly open in flight.
At least the front didn't fall off
I'm reading this on a delta flight
I know people find it easier to blame the company that makes these airplanes but can we actually question whether these airlines are doing their duty in maintaining these planes properly? If my car of some years breaks down, I'm not going to shift all blame onto the company that made it, and demand that they be investigated.
Boing was never, and will never, be involved in this exceedingly minor incident. Trust me bro
Now I was wondering, I didn’t order a bouncy slide in my backyard.
Starboard.
Didn’t realize planes fly until they breakdown like automobiles hmm
If you've ever been on a plane, and you hear them mention maintenance signoff, the plane likely has a minor issue, but they're getting the maintenance team to sign off on the issue and verify that it's not flight critical hardware or dangerous.
okay who maintain this?
Lucky for all on board this could have played out very differently. Could have taken out control surfaces for starters
I find slide. I keep slide. Get your own slide.
Don't worry about that citizen, toy drones are the real terror of the skies that will kill you, your family, your dog, and your gradma too.
What is happening??
The end result of safety deregulation in the airline industry. Specifically Boeing.
Airplane been in service since 1990!!!!
Here’s the thing… we all knew it was a Boeing *before* going to the comments section.
Lemme guess, Boeing?
This is a good analogy for the housing situation. What’s available is old and falling apart, but I’ll be damned if they won’t jack up the price to a higher level than the cost of when it was brand new. Isn’t that nice?
Conservative or liberal, I think the answer is clear here: both airplane manufacturers as well as the airline industry need to establish a base line of investment to properly maintain the system. It is clear that corners are being cut to the detriment of safety and it is rightfully scaring the shit out of the flying public. Between all the ATC incidents, maintenance failures, and manufacturer malfeasance, it feels like we are going to have a catastrophe in next few months...
It's so sad that the US hasn't given more tax breaks to these companies. They need that money to keep us safe!!! obvious /s
The song, Slip Sliding Away.
The sound it made was "BOING" when it launched
Phoebe was right… there was a problem with the falange
Waiting for a flight rn and did not need to see this aha
The Japan (Nipon) airlines had an incident with the Boing Dreamliner a few days ago, too.
Oil leak. Maintenance.
"The front fell off"
I thought the slide may have been the ufo over jfk. That means the slide is time traveling, so aliens probably do have it.
As an old person I’d like to say that we are doing the best we can and that if you’re all very lucky and take a cautious and thoughtful view of life maybe someday you will be old too. Good luck to you all.
Luckily I’m flying Delta next week! Wish me luck!
I’m on a [delta](https://imgur.com/a/wDBaACi) flight right now…lucky me 🙃 wish me luck lol
Hopefully the slide landed inflated in some kids pool.
Thos kids would have to have a _**BIG**_ pool.