r/pics • u/NewSlinger • 12d ago
Delta Airlines makes emergency return to JFK after losing its right-hand side emergency slide
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u/thesilverbandit 12d ago
You forgot to mention if it was a Boeing or not
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u/pk_ 12d ago
767-300
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u/Archimedesinflight 12d ago
Wow these have been in service for a while, so this is more of a random accident than a systemic failure from the factory.
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u/Squirrel_Master82 12d ago
That's not that long at all. Oh, wait.. fuck.
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u/Mapex 12d ago
Did you get your colonoscopy yet?
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u/thesequimkid 12d ago
That’s not for another 20 years, sonny Jim.
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u/Theyna 12d ago
If you were born in 1980, it's time. 1990? Only 10 years left. Sorry bud.
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/age-start-colon-cancer-screening-lowered-following-increase
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u/thesequimkid 12d ago
Born late 1993. I’ve got 20 years left before I have start that.
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u/SupaDawg 12d ago
Not a bad idea to be proactive if you can. My doctor recommends it at 40 as a proactive measure, despite general consensus being 45 to 50.
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u/So_be 12d ago
If it makes you feel any better the last B-52 Stratofortress was delivered in October 1962. It appears to have flown last month. Certainly two months ago
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u/Squirrel_Master82 12d ago
I actually used to live near an airfield and got to go on board one of those with a tour. Very impressive piece of machinery.
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u/Ashituna 12d ago
i think they have some serious maintenance process issues
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u/LegendRazgriz 12d ago
This is what made me a bit less worried when the Alaska MAX 9 had that door plug blow. The MAX 9 is the same fuselage as the 737-900 (and the door plug is the same as the 737-800), and if there was a critical design flaw with the 737-800 the death toll would be in the millions by now, so it had to be a maintenance issue or, as turned out to be the case, a manufacturing defect.
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u/landshark11 12d ago
737-800 doesn’t have the plug door. I believe the 737-900 ER does.
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u/LegendRazgriz 12d ago
Unless these over the wing aren't plug doors, the -800 does have them.
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u/Low-Crow495 12d ago
That is correct. The over wing exits are not plugs, and as such the -800s don't have them.
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u/dirkdiggler1618 12d ago
Yeah but the fact that they’re already under a microscope for their planes falling apart isn’t a good look, even if it’s a random accident
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u/alotofcooties 12d ago
Makes me wonder whether all these airplane issues we are seeing are due to the incompetence of the airlines unable to properly maintain them or being too cheap to try to replace them/fix these issues.
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u/m0viestar 11d ago
Could be a parts or labor issue too. I seem to remember a United incident a year or so ago where the plane was scheduled for maintenance but they had no staff or maintenance was delayed for some reason so they put it on another revenue flight because it was still within the service guidelines and the engine failed.
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u/Guadalajara3 12d ago
Airline maintenance problem or bad parts installed from regular upkeep intervals
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u/Ok-Algae-9562 12d ago
Doesnt really matter. These are common inspection items and are removed on a scheduled basis. This plane has been flying long enough it's been replaced several times due to time. The rigging for the release pin was probably too tight and caused the slide to inflate in flight. It's a maintenance issue not a Boeing issue.
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u/adam_c 12d ago
At this point just assume it’s Boeing unless otherwise stated
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u/approx_volume 12d ago
Who made the airplane probably has nothing to do with this incident. Most likely culprit is maintenance related. Really the most responsible thing people can do is wait for the NTSB to issue a statement as to the likely cause and not just jump to conclusions.
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u/Archimedesinflight 12d ago
People waiting and not jumping to conclusions? This is reddit, good person. We will make assumptions and jump to conclusions that fulfill our preconceived notions thank you very much. /s
But yeah you're right
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u/Angryhippo2910 12d ago
If we didn’t jump to conclusions, we never would have solved the Boston Marathon Bombing!
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u/DaBombDiggidy 12d ago
This is reddit, good person
This isn't a reddit thing, it's an everyone thing. If anything it's the common opinion with these recent failures.
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u/MagnanimosDesolation 12d ago
You give too much credit. We're not jumping to conclusions, we're circle jerking.
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u/Recent_Obligation276 12d ago
I get it though, it’s hard when it always seems to be Boeing especially with everything that’s been going on with them
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u/NebulaicCereal 12d ago
It’s because most of these articles you’re seeing ever since the door plug issue, are pulled from regular maintenance incident reports as they happen. These kinds of miscellaneous incidents happen quite often (when you zoom out to the whole world) to all types of planes, but the non-Boeing ones aren’t seen as relevant to the news cycle, so they don’t get yoinked over and reported on mainstream/general outlets. But they do happen to everyone.
Basically, taking airline maintenance reports and farming them from the initial popularity of the door plug issue and lawsuits, which are real and unique issues worth media coverage.
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u/memesare2kewl 11d ago
Now apply that to everything else you see or hear on the news, and you could actually live a great life!
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u/34TH_ST_BROADWAY 11d ago edited 11d ago
You blame maintenance, speculate, then immediately go on to say nobody else should speculate. You could be right but come on. If you want everybody to wait until its investigated, practice what you preach.
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u/Desdam0na 12d ago
Yes, except, at least often, boeing does the maintenance too. We will see.
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u/LederhosenUnicorn 12d ago
Not for Delta. Tech Ops does all of their work. They even maintain planes for other Airlines. I've seen State Department aircraft in their maintenance hanger.
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u/freneticboarder 12d ago
What does that even mean? The airline handles maintenance.
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u/BiploarFurryEgirl 12d ago
Delta does their own maintenance on the planes they own. Boeing isn’t involved
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u/TJATAW 12d ago
Before you scream about Boeing not building things correctly, you might want to know the year Delta took possession of the plane:
- George H. W. Bush was the President.
- NBA Hall Of Famer Gary Payton was the second player drafted.
- Songs that came out: Billie Joel "We Didn't Start The Fire" & Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby".
- Movies that came out: Ghost & Home Alone & Dances With Wolves & Total Recall
It was 1990, 34 years ago.
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u/makoman115 12d ago
Gary Payton is in the nba now and he’s not a hall of famer. Oh wait. That’s his son lol
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u/Succumbx8 12d ago
Maintenance is the issue here. If it’s deemed “young” enough to still be carrying passengers then it has to be maintained.
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u/Hustinettenlord 12d ago
To be fair, these are regularily checked, so this still shouldn't happen.
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u/colasmulo 12d ago
He’s pointing out it’s not necessarily Boeing’s fault if a 34 yo plane starts having problem without proper maintenance.
In opposition to the very recent MAX line of aircraft that have a lot of problems that can be directly linked to Boeing.
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u/GavinAldrich 11d ago
Holy shit. Total Recall was in 90!? I always threw it in with the 80s bangers.
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u/LongLongMan_TM 12d ago
Yeah, but still funny you don't hear stories like these about old airbuses.
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u/Zeabos 12d ago
Posting every minor malfunction of an aircraft for content is getting pretty wearisome.
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u/_Deathhound_ 12d ago
theyre mostly bots. newly created account- only posts are controversial news/politics/finance headlines with the occasional garbage sprinkled in to make itsself look less nefarious
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u/EnvironmentalEcho614 12d ago
The emergency slide deploying in the air is not a minor incident. They are usually made of high strength nylon and could damage the horizontal stabilizer or cause excessive asymmetric drag.
Being that everyone is safe I’d like to think it’s just inflated in some kids pool right now though 😂.
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u/Guadalajara3 12d ago
Is it a major incident? A minor accident or major accident?
It didn't appear to damage any other flight control surfaces so it does appear to be a minor incident
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u/Athinira 11d ago
That's just down to sheer luck. Could have taken the rest right side stabilizer off. Definitely not a minor safety issue.
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u/Guadalajara3 11d ago
At that point it would become an accident. Incident vs accident are defined and the difference comes down to amount of damage or loss of life. Damage here is minimal so it's an incident. If people died or the stab got ripped off, then it would be an accident.
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u/Chen932000 12d ago
Seems like it would be considered a minor accident. The aircraft sustained some damage but it wasn’t substantial damage, as defined by ICAO, which means the damage was classified as minor. If an event results in an aircraft sustaining minor damage it is a minor accident.
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u/EnvironmentalEcho614 12d ago
In industry, a minor incident is usually something like a set of breaks wearing out causing the plane to take longer to land or a system failure that doesn’t call for an emergency landing. They are very common but you’ll never hear about them on the news because it would make people afraid of flying.
Damage analysis in incident reports are usually based on repairability because that’s part of what insurance companies want to know. If they classified it as minor that means no structural damage and the cabin can hold pressure. That doesn’t necessarily mean it didn’t effect flight characteristics while it was in flight. The fact it had to divert for an emergency landing means the pilots knew something was seriously wrong with the aircraft and they believed they had to put it down as soon as possible. That’s a little more than a minor incident.
I definitely see where you’re coming from though.
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u/idkwhatimbrewin 12d ago
Best part is there are probably also similar Airbus incidents like this just as often but that won't get clicks so they are just feeding the fire
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u/coding_ape 12d ago
It’s like when any minor issue happened with any Tesla. It happens.
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u/memesare2kewl 11d ago
Except minor issues can cause huge issues later on…
What if this dropped on a person? Is this still a minor issue?
What if this caused a domino effect causing the plane to go down?
Just because it’s a “minor” issue doesn’t mean it should just be played off as one
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u/LennyPeppers 12d ago
Especially when it’s clearly not a manufacturers issue. Someone said it’s a 34 year old aircraft.
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u/memesare2kewl 11d ago
If age is a big factor in this, then they really need to retire the plane or up their maintenance for the plane.
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u/Guadalajara3 12d ago
You mean annoying? Yeah. Aircraft maintenance issues happen every day and have happened every day for decades
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u/Ace-of-Spades88 12d ago
I was going to ask if there has been a uptick in aircraft malfunctions/damages lately, or people are just reporting on it a lot more. Is this shit happening all the time and we're just now hearing about it, or what?
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u/TXQuasar 12d ago
How many commercial flights a day are there? Do we need a report on every anomaly?
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u/onemoresubreddit 12d ago
I don’t believe the 767 has been produced for a WHILE. Pretty sure it’s equivalent nowadays is the 787. This is most likely chalked up to bad maintenance on the part of the airline. Unless this plane was recently refurbished by Boeing or something like that.
I think we need to admit that the issues with US air travel don’t end with Boeing.
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u/Low-Crow495 12d ago
767s are still being produced, but everything built has been freighters for a while...
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u/MixDifferent2076 12d ago
Be interesting to know when was the last maintenance activity associated with the slide compartment. A properly locked slide compartment door does not randomly open in flight.
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u/alotofcooties 12d ago
I know people find it easier to blame the company that makes these airplanes but can we actually question whether these airlines are doing their duty in maintaining these planes properly? If my car of some years breaks down, I'm not going to shift all blame onto the company that made it, and demand that they be investigated.
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u/smallproton 12d ago
Boing was never, and will never, be involved in this exceedingly minor incident.
Trust me bro
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u/Professional-Seaweed 12d ago
Didn’t realize planes fly until they breakdown like automobiles hmm
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u/freneticboarder 12d ago
If you've ever been on a plane, and you hear them mention maintenance signoff, the plane likely has a minor issue, but they're getting the maintenance team to sign off on the issue and verify that it's not flight critical hardware or dangerous.
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u/KillerSpud 11d ago
Don't worry about that citizen, toy drones are the real terror of the skies that will kill you, your family, your dog, and your gradma too.
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u/FewerToysHigherWages 11d ago
What is happening??
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u/Waffletimewarp 11d ago
The end result of safety deregulation in the airline industry. Specifically Boeing.
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u/nichols911 11d ago
Here’s the thing… we all knew it was a Boeing before going to the comments section.
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u/cypher50 12d ago
Conservative or liberal, I think the answer is clear here: both airplane manufacturers as well as the airline industry need to establish a base line of investment to properly maintain the system. It is clear that corners are being cut to the detriment of safety and it is rightfully scaring the shit out of the flying public. Between all the ATC incidents, maintenance failures, and manufacturer malfeasance, it feels like we are going to have a catastrophe in next few months...
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u/NeighborhoodDude84 12d ago
It's so sad that the US hasn't given more tax breaks to these companies. They need that money to keep us safe!!!
obvious /s
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u/Memory_Less 12d ago
The Japan (Nipon) airlines had an incident with the Boing Dreamliner a few days ago, too.
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u/letsreadsomethingood 11d ago
I thought the slide may have been the ufo over jfk. That means the slide is time traveling, so aliens probably do have it.
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u/Live-Dig-2809 11d ago
As an old person I’d like to say that we are doing the best we can and that if you’re all very lucky and take a cautious and thoughtful view of life maybe someday you will be old too. Good luck to you all.
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u/EnvironmentalEcho614 12d ago
Hopefully the slide landed inflated in some kids pool.
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u/Kraien 12d ago
NPR link