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DELTA BOEING 767 JET THAT DROPPED EMERGENCY SLIDE IS 33 YEARS OLD — WELL PAST
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Emergency slide falls off Delta plane, forcing LA-bound flight to return to JFK


The Boeing jet that dropped an emergency slide after taking off from JFK Airport
on Friday is 33 years old — well past the typical retirement age for a
commercial jetliner, according to aviation experts.

The chute from Delta Flight 520 had detached from a panel above the right wing
shortly after the Los Angeles-bound plane took off from JFK Airport in New York
last Friday. The deflated slide was recovered Sunday after it washed up on the
Rockaway peninsula, about six miles from JFK, as The Post exclusively reported.

According to data from Airfleets.net, the Boeing-made 767 jet is 33 years old —
above a passenger plane’s typical lifespan of 20 to 25 years, longtime
commercial pilot Scott Miller told The Post.

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The emergency slide that fell off the Delta plane Friday got tangled near 131st
Street in Belle Harbor, Queens. Jake Bissell-Linsk

He said Boeing stopped delivering its 767 passenger planes a decade ago, though
this model is still being used by the US military.



Miller said the incident was likely due to a latch failure, as the aging Boeing
767 only deploys the slide when the emergency exit door over the wing is open.


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He declined to speculate whether the freak accident was because of the plane’s
age or because Delta’s maintenance crew failed to realize there was a faulty
latch before takeoff.

In either case, Miller pointed the finger at Delta for the mishap — and cleared
Boeing of any possible fault like the company suffered after the near-disastrous
fuselage blowout on an Alaska Airlines-operated Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane earlier
this year.

“Once an airplane leaves the manufacturer, Delta is responsible for maintenance
and upkeep. It works like a car dealership,” said Miller, who also lectures at
San Jose State University.

Former pilot Richard Levy, who flew for American Airlines for 41 years, agreed
with that assessment.

“This emergency exit coming open does not happen in a vacuum,” Levy said.

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This is the Delta plane that lost its emergency slide and flew back safely to
JFK Airport. Reddit

“The question is who did maintenance on that airplane, and who specifically did
any maintenance on the cover to the emergency overwing exits and when. Thats
what the FAA will be looking at.”

Delta has said it is fully cooperating with the Federal Aviation Administration
“as nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people.”

The National Transportation Safety Board told The Post that it’s “collecting
information about the event, but have not launched an investigation.”

The 33-year-old plane is one of 44 Boeing 767-300s in Delta’s fleet of 963
aircraft, according to a March 31 public fling.

Delta’s 767s have an average age of 28 years, compared to the entire fleet’s
average of 14.9 years, the filing shows.

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Delta’s fleet included 44 Boeing 767-300 planes, including the one that lost the
slide, that on average were 28 years old. AP

“The airplane in question here – the warranty on that airplane expired a number
of years ago,” Doug Drury, Head of Aviation at Central Queensland University in
Australia, told The Post.

This wasn’t the first chute incident suffered by Delta’s fleet of 767s.

Last June, another Delta Flight 520 taking the same route from JFK to Los
Angeles was diverted to Utah due to what the Atlanta-based carrier dubbed a
“maintenance issue” at the time.

Just moments after it touched the ground, the slide at the rear of the cabin
accidentally deployed inside the plane, shooting a panel door at a crew member,
who was then taken to the hospital, The Post earlier reported.

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The Delta emergency slide was found six miles Southwest of JFK airport.
Fortunately, it landed in the water.

Sources said at the time that the plane’s catering crew had accidentally caused
the slide to explode “like an airbag.”

This was not the same Boeing 767 plane, as flight numbers are attached to the
same routes, rather than aircrafts, a source close to the situation said.

The 2023 incident was a matter of human error as the slides hadn’t been disarmed
by the flight attendant prior to opening the door on arrival, the source said.




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The emergency slide that fell off the Delta plane Friday got tangled near 131st
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