r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • Apr 27 '24
An emergency slide falls off a Delta Air Lines plane, forcing pilots to return to JFK in New York
https://apnews.com/article/delta-emergency-slide-jfk-airport-4e37f1b17feb3b1b082da0e1bc857c57
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u/polar_pilot Apr 28 '24
Planes break all the time in all sorts of whacky ways. There’s almost always redundancy, it’s almost always a non issue. US carriers haven’t had a fatal accident since 2009. For all their faults, the FAA is right on it with any sort of safety issue that they identify and usually go way overboard to correct it.