Air travel is stressful enough without considering whether a plane's emergency slide can be deployed by accident. But can it?

However, while emergency slides come with their obvious benefits, they can sometimes be deployed inadvertently, which can cause serious injury, or even death, to those inside and outside of the ...

Emergency evacuation slides are one of the key components of an aircraft's emergency equipment, and they can be life-saving if passengers and crew members need to disembark the aircraft urgently.

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A spokesperson for the airport clarified the aircraft was empty when the emergency slide was accidentally deployed, and was pulling up to the gate to load passengers for the outbound flight.

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but a recent Delta Air Lines flight was canceled after the flight crew accidentally deployed an emergency slide before takeoff. Delta Flight 419 was scheduled to depart Seattle-Tacoma ...