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Old 17th Mar 2014, 17:39
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givemewings
 
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Someone has already posted on this aircraft there was one on one of the pax doors (may have been all pax doors), BUT you have to manually release them from their stowage,
This jumped out at me, is that confirmed by the airline or another reliable source? Just doesn't sound right to me, to have something like that easily accessible to pax. The number of times I've caught them fiddling with a halon or o2 bottle... On the flip side, it seems counter-productive to have them inside the slideraft pack/door bustle (if that is what was meant) because of maintenance/checking issues. (Assume poster was referring to portable ADT406 or similar)

That model (I'm assuming in most) airlines requires a check by the CC prior to departure. I don't see the beancounters allowing one on every door (would be 8 on a 772) when one or two would do the job... The idea being of course that after successfully exiting the aircraft into the rafts the CC would join them up and operate the existing 406s as a group

Anyway, carry on....
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