Friday, May 3, 2024

Emergency Escape Slide That Fell Off Boeing 767 Found

From the New York Post, April 29:

Missing emergency slide that fell off Delta flight found — washed up in front of house of lawyer whose firm is suing Boeing 

The emergency slide that fell off a Delta flight departing from JFK Airport on Friday was found two days later — washed up in front of the beachside house of a lawyer whose firm happens to be suing Boeing over safety issues, The Post has learned.

Jake Bissell-Linsk — a New York attorney whose firm filed a lawsuit against Boeing following the Alaska Airlines door blowout in January — told The Post he got a surprise on Sunday around noon when he looked out the window of his oceanfront home in Belle Harbor, Queens.

There — trapped on the rocks within feet of his front yard in a freak coincidence — was the emergency slide that fell off the Boeing 767 jetliner, he told The Post.

“We are right on the beach and I saw it was sitting on the breakers,” Bissell-Linsk told The Post....

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Despite Boeing's horrendous (and disastrous in the case of the 737s that crashed) record, they may not be entirely at fault here. Also at the Post, May 1:

Delta Boeing 767 jet that dropped emergency slide is 33 years old — well past normal age for active airliner: experts