Emirates A380 Upper Deck Slide Deploys At Manchester Airport

It would be fun for kids to slide down the slide to get off a flight though, or is it just me?

Looking at the angle of the slides from the top deck on that video, it looks like you're going to hit the ground with a fair bit of force?

It’s just you.
Emergency slides are scary. Users should jump out onto the slide but many just flop from their standing position, landing on their bum and breaking a bone.
It’s not fun.

For clarification, they're not going to wait for this particular slide to be repackaged. They're going to fly in spare sidle from their parts warehouse and install that. The slide will be shipped to a specialist company for repackaging and placed in EK's parts inventory.

Is such "error" eligiable for European 261 compensation ?
Beyond that, does 261 still even counts after Brexit ?

Yes, EU261 still applies in the UK and yes, this would be an example of where passengers could claim.

I am curious to know what the door opening procedure is for Cabin Crew at EK.

Airlines generally have one of two different procedures:
1) Crew disarm doors. Cross check. Jetty is attached. Ground staff indicate all is good for crew to open the door. Crew open door.
2) Crew disarm doors. Cross check. Jetty is attached. Ground staff indicate all is good for door opening. Crew indicate to ground staff they are also ready (usually a thumbs up in the door window). And then the GROUND STAFF crack the door open from the outside.

The advantage of option '2' is that aircraft doors have a safety mechanism where if it is still in the 'armed' mode and the door is opened from the outside the slide is automatically disarmed. A caterer or ground staff member could be seriously injured or even killed by a slide deploying into a confined space.

I am assuming by this Emirates incident that crew open the door using option '1' where the crew open the door from the inside.

WHeeEEEeeeeEEEE!!!

I am curious. Where was this photo taken? Looks like it was taken at BOS Terminal E.

It could be human error but I would not discount a malfunction of the disarm mechanism. I saw this first hand on a 747 with my carrier. The door was clearly disarmed, but when opened it quickly became apparent that the slide was still armed. Fortunately the FA at the door saw the slide coming out of the container and stopped the door opening so it did not fully deploy.

In the videos that I've seen of Emirates, they typically do option 1, with the cabin crew opening the doors from the inside.

As a former FA it is fun, but it does burn the heels of your shoes, and we wore overalls to protect ourselves. So - fun or some ouch burns on skin for those wearing shorts, ladies in pantyhose etc.?

An inadvertent slide deployment can be dangerous especially if it inflates, to those on the jet bridge or surrounding area. Even inside the cabin should it fall inside and deploy. Hopefully that did not happen in this incident.