GSM Slide blown in LPL

I can confirm that it has just left LPL ( Well it has just taxi past my office window any how)

Jethro15. Yes but you are able to open them from outside as the operation of the outside handle automaticaly disarms the slide. That is on 747,757,767,777 A318/19/20/21/30/40. BUT NOT ON A 737!!!!!!!!!! On the 737 the cabin crew have to get onto their hands an knees and attach the slide to the aircraft by quick release fittings and has to be disarmed in the same way. Sounds gash don’t it? But they have sold over four thousand of the damm things. (Picture at the bottom of this page http://www.b737.org.uk/emergency_equipment.htm)

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Is it still the case that regardless of the company or a/c concerned, loaded passenger a/c doors must only be opened from the inside and never by ground crew from the outside, unless they have specific instruction that the door is disarmed?

Old Git (Great name by the way, I’m hopeing to become a sad old git one day myself!) Once a slide has blown it needs to go back to the slide bay for re packing. You can dispatch an aircraft with an inoperative/missing slide but you need to reduce the passenger load by a certain amount. I can’t quote the figures off the top of my head but I think it’s twice what you would think. (i.e. for an eight exit aircraft I THINK you have to off load a quarter of the full pax load) The row was proberbly because the engineer had made them leave about 70-80 pax behind, or perhaps……….. Naa won’t say that bit!!!!
All airlines take a very dim view of accidental slide deployment because of the costs both of repacking the slide, which will run ino the tens of thousands of pounds and the cost of dealing with the punters. At Manchester only cabin crew, trained airline reps and engineers are alowed to open the doors.
The realy nasty exits are the 767 overwing exits. They don’t look like doors, just hatches. Open one and not only will you blow a slide aft of the wing but you will set off an explosive charge in the inboard board spoilers! (to blow them down if they are up) 😮 The A320 overwing exits will also blow a slide if removed but the inboard spoilers are low enough to step over.

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The serviceable slide will be supplied to you with a safety or transport pin fitted. This is a pin fitted to the trigger mechanism of the inflation bottle to prevent it going off as you are installing it. You would get a second engineer to check that you have removed it and make a second log book entry to certify that has done it. I cannot recall if it is a CAA requirement or just a company proceedure but I ALWAYS do it. Nobody died of double checking!!!!

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V interesting Cking thanks, I asked because in the mid 1970s I was employed at Abu Dhabi Airport in the UAE on the admin side and remember arriving at the airport for work one day to find a row going on with the airport engineer
(nicknamed Bob Spanners) and someone from PIA. Apparently a PIA DC10 had a slide burst out on to the apron and the crew put it back before the passengers boarded and took off. I did’nt pay a lot of attention but I think the engineer was supposed to check it as a rule.

The serviceable slide will be supplied to you with a safety or transport pin fitted. This is a pin fitted to the trigger mechanism of the inflation bottle to prevent it going off as you are installing it. You would get a second engineer to check that you have removed it and make a second log book entry to certify that has done it. I cannot recall if it is a CAA requirement or just a company proceedure but I ALWAYS do it. Nobody died of double checking!!!!

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as a matter of interest when a slide gets blown does’nt a seperate party have to check it being put back (ie CAA or some health and safety bods)?

and via Keflavik.

Lets bloody hope my flights not on a 737-800 via Keflavik.

He doesn’t work for the airline! He said he was told by a friend!

I doubt somewhat that when a slide has blown, that the person would be wondering round getting shots of something, he no doubt sees everyday! :rolleyes:

heheheheh LMAO

Didn’t you get any cabin shots.

He doesn’t work for the airline! He said he was told by a friend!

I doubt somewhat that when a slide has blown, that the person would be wondering round getting shots of something, he no doubt sees everyday! :rolleyes:

Ahh maybe explains why G-SAAW 737-800 is operating the YYZ flight from MAN today 😮

and via Keflavik.

Ahh maybe explains why G-SAAW 737-800 is operating the YYZ flight from MAN today 😮

Didn’t you get any cabin shots.

A330-200, please read thoroughlly and make sure you understand it, it does help, believe me :rolleyes:

Yes it was at Doncaster then flew off to Liverpool i think.

like i say was just on a training flight?

whs the 767 here i thought there using 757