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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Mon Jun 12 19:52:19 2023 USA TodayDouble whammy: Plane's emergency slide deploys after flight diverts over instrument issue Zach Wichter USA TODAY Well, that’s not supposed to happen. A Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Los Angeles diverted to Salt Lake City on Saturday after the pilots noticed a potential issue with one of their instruments. While on the ground, the Boeing 767’s emergency slide was accidentally deployed at the gate, meaning the plane had to come out of service. The slide deployment was unrelated to the original issue that caused the diversion. “The safety of our customers and crew is our number one priority at Delta. We apologize to our customers on flight 520 on Saturday for the experience they had. Delta teams are fully investigating,” Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesperson, said in an email statement. According to the airline, the flight crew never declared an emergency related to the instruments. One crew member was taken to the hospital for evaluation as a result of the slide incident, but Delta said they were released soon after. There were 168 passengers onboard the affected flight, and they were flown to their final destination by a different aircraft and landed later the same day. Per Airliners.net, plane was N189DN, a 1997 767-332ER. In happier times:  That plane holds around 220 passengers, yet the pax were reloaded onto a 737-832, which has about 60 fewer seats. Not great load factors (it was a JFK-LAX flight, so DL may have wanted a widebody on it). |
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