Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/02/delta-evacuation-slide-falls-f.html
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If it was inflated, I’d be looking for someone making an Indiana Jones style escape from the plane.
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Fortunately, the falling people that followed landed in the neighbors yard.
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Wha?! How?! These things are usually attached to the door inside the plane.
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As I recall, a body did fall out of a wheel well a few years ago not far from where this happened. The neighborhood is on the approach path to Boston Logan International.
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I’m with you. This is weird.
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So what you’re saying is that they had an extra?
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No mention of Airliner model so it’s hard to judge specifics.
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I gather that some aircraft have slides or rafts that extend from the wings for passengers exiting from the overwing emergency exits. It’s a good thing that this didn’t get wrapped around the tail making the plane difficult to control.
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Flying without an inflatable is dangerous:
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in Milton, south of Boston
This Old House has been on the air for so long now, that I think I can name more Boston-adjacent towns than those around my own city.
Not that anyone asked.
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I’ve learned a ton of interesting stuff about airplanes from this guy’s channel (I think I discovered him via a post here on BoingBoing, in fact). There’s a good chance he’ll address how this may have happened in a future video.
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There are not many animated gifs for This Old House… just in case anyone was wondering…
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Can you imagine seeing this yourself, while you’re wandering around, minding your own business, not expecting to see part of an airplane falling from the sky?
No?
If I saw a loose-and-flappy airplane part on the ground, I’d assume the rigid metal bits had already landed a few minutes ago.
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Side note: That guy’s front yard is HUGE.
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Delta flight, Paris to Boston.
Seatguru suggests it was probably a 777-200?
Correction: the 777 belongs to Air France. If it was a Delta flagged aircraft it was probably(?) a 767-300(ER)
Edit: snap below.
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ORLY?
Astoundingly, the GCAA report suggests that zero of the emergency slides functioned fully in their evacuation function. This issue was also raised following the evacuation of Asiana flight 214 , which crashed at San Francisco in 2013, where slides inflated inside the aircraft cabin of the Boeing 777-200ER. Is adequate scrutiny being given to this repeated problem?
ETA: Nope, 767 you say? Surely that doesn’t have known slide issues, too?
Why yes, yes it does. from 2015.
Federal aviation regulators are proposing safety fixes affecting more than 300 Boeing BA, -3.00% 767 jetliners to prevent the unexpected deployment of emergency escape slides.
Not a good day to be in Boeing PR.
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Based on the arrival time, the carrier and the route, it was Delta DL405. A Boeing 767-300.
ETA: confirmed, by reading the linked articles.
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Yep. The 767 has overwing escape slides that deploy from just above the trailing edge of the wing:
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