Not again! Boeing plane makes emergency landing in New York when emergency slide flies off mid-flight

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/26/not-again-boeing-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-new-york-when-emergency-slide-flies-off-mid-flight.html

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Finders keepers!
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Airline investigators later determined that the inflatable device had been commandeered by a noted archaeologist, his young assistant and a Shanghai-based nightclub singer in an improbable effort to jump to safety mid-flight.

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That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

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It could be worse.

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When TF is boeing really going to do something about all this shit?

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I’m sure the company spokesperson can put a positive spin on all of this. :smiley:

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Can we please ground all Boeing jets?

It’s the right thing to do.

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Did the front fall off?

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Oh for FOCK’S SAKE!

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Unless the plane is brand new, this sounds like an issue with Delta’s procedures of maintaining and checking planes and nothing to do with Boeing.

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I’m not an economist, but I think grounding almost half of the world’s airliners and cargo planes might throw the world into a massive recession.

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Is there a word for that feeling when you’ve found your people?

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You’ve been moved into the right environment?

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I’ve been moved beyond the environment.

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But, didn’t you come in a Commonwealth car?

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Yeah, but…

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What?

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The USAF would not like that at all.

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…the front fell off.

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