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AvTalk Episode 225: The escaping escape slide

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The ASEANA Exit Door Slide Deploys Uncommandedly

There are also off-wing escape slide airworthiness directives that address the escape slide not deploying when it's supposed to. Part of those airworthiness directives also address the slide deploying in an un-commanded fashion during maintenance activity. So it's unclear at this point, obviously the FAA is missed getting what happened or why it happened exactly. But I'm going to be keen to find out what they discover about why this particular slide deployed. Good news is it detached from the aircraft, it didn't cause any further problems.

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