MD 90 slide deployment in flight?

[320DRIVER]

Interesting snag. Any more info?



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** Report created 5/26/2005 Record 1 **
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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 910DN Make/Model: MD90 Description: MD-90
Date: 05/24/2005 Time: 1705

Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: Minor Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Minor

LOCATION
City: SALT LAKE CITY State: UT Country: US

DESCRIPTION
N910DN, DAL589, A DELTA AIRLINES BOEING MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD90 ACFT,
DECLARED AN EMERGENCY WHEN THE 2L SLIDE DEPLOYED, ACFT RETURNED TO THE
AIRPORT, LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT, ONE FLIGHT ATTENDANT SUSTAINED A MINOR
INJURY, SALT LAKE CITY, UT

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 1 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:

WEATHER: NOT REPORTED

OTHER DATA

Departed: SALT LAKE CITY, UT Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: NEW ORLEANS, LA Flt Plan: IFR Wx Briefing:
Last Radio Cont:
Last Clearance:

FAA FSDO: SALT LAKE CITY, UT (NM07) Entry date: 05/25/2005

[ExSimGuy]

Didn't have slides in the Sims but, isn't the slide fitted inside the door? Doesn't the door have to open before the slide deployed? Or would it have deployed inside the a/c? (pretty darned scarey for the FA who was nearby:eek: )

[cringe]

A similar incident occured last October on a FlyNordic MD-83. At FL300 an emergency slide deployed inside the cabin, injuring two flight attentants in the process.

During the 2000 Southwest runway overshoot at Burbank, one of the slides inflated inside the plane.

On 757s, there have been a few cases of off-wing slides separating in-flight.