Originally Posted by
Wiley
Detatching a slide from an unuseable door and taking it to another is certainly an option on Boeing aircraft as far as I know. (I was certainly taught the procedure.) Airbus too, if I my memory serves me correctly, but it's been a few years since I flew one of the Dark Side's products, so I stand ready to be corrected.
Unless you carry a toolkit around and a copy of the Maintenance Manual then removing escape slides is not the sort of job you attempt whilst in a sinking aircraft...
