NTSB: Plane Emergency Slides Often Fail

[jamotto]

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[Soback]

Ugh, pisses me off. In aviation everything is already so expensive that costs are way above than "through the roof" now they want 10% of the fleet tested? Ludicrous, each slide deployment costs about $10,000. If you have 100 airplanes, each having at least 4 slides that's $400,000 just for one test, and for what? They should not only think about that stupidity, but also in what ammount of cases the slides are actually used, that's considering the type of emergency and if the plane survives it period, then run cost vs. risk assesment and see if it works out. And then everyone else wonders why the airlines are going bankrupt and why everything costs so much, it's because the FAA is a beuracracy that doesn't know heads from tails, aviation used to be so much better before it was established in the 50s. Shows that whatever government touches turns to $hit.

[Soback]

And to back that up, just look at the service passengers recieved when they flew with the airlines during 40s through 60s, and now you'll be lucky if you get to stretch your legs (yeah, right) and maybe get a soda and a cookie (here you go doggie). "Pack em up, ship em out"