Over the weekend, some Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 passengers had a pretty rough journey from New York to Los Angeles, as the plane had to divert over a mechanical issue, then the emergency slide deployed in an unrelated incident, and then their aircraft got downgraded to a Boeing 737.
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BOEING once again! 😮
It looks like it's the AFT Cabin Left door, which usually is an electric door and if you look CLOSE, the so called slide cover is clearly hanging off the room, meaning that door was opened somehow and it looks like that slide was "ARMED" (ready for flights) strangly MOST bins are still open in the cabin, so that cabin was 100% NOT ready for flight so how on earth could a slide be ARMED?
Somebody didn't do the homework and pay attention.
THIS is bad enough, but then again. . . it's another BOEING where i see things NOT going as should with a slide.
I stick with my personal opinion, BOEING should only be allowed to built Military planes!
A slide, is one of THE most important things you'll need in any emergency, no matter if on the ground or on water!
I do hope, this incident will be investigated ALL THE WAY, but i'm sure BOEING will find a way to not get all details to the public from FAA. (as usual)
So on the 767 when the door is opened from the outside handle it will automatically disarm. The electric assist on 1L only raises or lowers to a certain point at that point the interior handle locked the door or unseated depending on whether it was being opened or closed in “Unarmed” operation. In “Armed” mode the door operates with a hydraulic assist mechanism and you don’t want to be near that door. My airline (not DL) operated the 200/300 models and the only door with an electric assist was 1L (forward left) other door had to be heaved up or down after being locked or unlocked in normal operation. The slide pack had to fall inward instead of outward from the bustle when the door opened. The downward falling of the slide from the bustle triggers the explosive inflation and it will knock anyone in its path across the cabin in this case or across a jetbridge or ramp stand if it’s going outward. I’m having trouble imagining a scenario where it just fell inward and deployed without the door being opened. I’ll guess that it was being opened from the outside while in “Armed” mode and the mechanism that should have disarmed it failed. My second guess is the FA saw the door being opened in Armed mode from the outside and tried to stop the process and lost the battle.
Delta requires bins to be closed, before cabin doors are shut and any arming procedure occurs. In this case, multiple bins were open, thus allowing me to speculate that the boarding door was still open.
Since this was the 2 Left door, I am guessing that this occurred while a catering truck was pulled up to the aircraft, causing the slide to invert and deploy inside of the aircraft.
Blaming BOEING for something that was beyond their control seems a bit much for a plane that was built 26 years ago. That's definitely not the original slide that was with the aircraft on delivery. It was likely installed by a DELTA employee during heavy phase maintenance within the last year. So it's a DELTA problem, not a BOEING problem.
If you left BOEING to deliver only military aircraft, then what are you going to do? Order from AIRBUS? They've got their own issues. Perhaps you want to fly the new C919 or go RUSSIAN??
BOEING had nothing to do with this one.
Delta should invest in new planes. Its fleet, like the other Legacy carriers in the US, is worn, dated, sleepy and sad.
I'm looking forward to comments from Delta's biggest fan declaring this part of their brilliant master strategy, and another thing that proves them to be the best carrier in the Americas.
DL and UA got jilted by Boing, waiting for them to develop a new mid-market that kept getting canceled.
Probably about how cost effective using a 26 year old plane. Proven by best profitability among the carriers.
But let's save the best and read it from the man himself.
You mean the one between 737MAX10 and 787-8 or A321XLR and A330-800.
The one that would only serve US carriers on few TATL routes and likely would sell a bit over a hundred at most to barely break even.
Yes blame that on Boeing for spending more money on NMA rather than milking the 737 and 777 cash cow.
Not that I agree with Boeing.
How did they fit a whole 767 passenger load on a 737-800? Did they need two planes? I can't imagine a 767 being so empty they could fit it on the 737. Seems like there is at least a 50 seat difference there.
My guess would be DL rebooked people whose final destination isn't LAX straight outta SLC.
The door incident maybe partly due to the 2400 new DL recruits...I have seen some in action lately..The older FA's have their hands full with these new ones....!! They do not seen to pay attention and want to socialize with their buddies..
Salt Lake was a convenient choice also because it is one of Delta's hubs. They should have given refunds or compensation for the downgrades.