Originally published at: Evacuation slide falls from United flight and lands in a backyard, caught on camera (video) | Boing Boing
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Do the people on whom it fell get to keep it? Right of salvage, right?
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“You can have it back if you stop flying over our home.”
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You learn something new every day. I always thought slides were installed on the inside of the doors and could only be deployed once the cabin door was opened. Today I learned that some planes install them in an external compartment. Go figure…
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That first video sure is lucky. It’s kind of amazing that some rando was pointing a camera at literally empty sky at the right moment to catch that. It’s not security footage- the camera is shaking and focus-hunting. It’s handheld, yet there’s nothing out there to look at. Maybe a kid filming the planes taking off with their phone?
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I believe that was just someone hand-filming a security system screen. (who didn’t have access or didn’t want to bother with getting video files off the system)
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If they could fully extend it, the neighborhood kids would love it!
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I didn’t see squat floating out of the sky even extended all the way out
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Ooooh, thanks for that. That makes way more sense.
Or, as Foxnews reported, “United Airlines bombs a suburban Chicago neighborhood.”
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