Okay, im just wondering what any of your views are on this potentially fatal accident, i wont mention the airline inolved as i would not like like this to come back on me in any way,last year we where asked to do a Manual pax carry off on a ***JET 757,we came in on the R2 door next to the wing as Caterers had been on the front R1 door,we had the ambi lined up and the hostie opened the door and told us she wouldnt have us taking the pax off at this door, why i dont know but she seemed in a bad mood at this time,we questioned this as the passenger who was fully disabled from the legs below was close to this door and to cause the passenger no fuss and any uncomfort this was obviously the best choice rather than trying to to take him down the narrow aisle, after a bit of arguing back and forth she was adamant she wanted us to move to the front, further delaying the aircrafts boarding and our own departure as we had other passengers to attend to, we lined the ambi up at the front and raised the cab! The next thing the door gets flung open carelessly and the escape shoot drops out onto our cab hissing away, teh enginerr commented that at least a foot or more of extension and the shoot would have deployed, firing me and my collegues out the back from which we where around 20 odd ft in the air at this point, as you can clearly see the shoot handle is in the "Armed Postion" showing a lack of attention and care on the lady's part from which this could have turned out to be a fatal accident. Im just wondering if anything else like this has happend to anyone out there?, a few people have been killed over the years here in incidents like this, it just shows how easily things can go wrong.
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