Icelandair B757 loses evacuation slide
 

Danish news site reports that an Icelandair 757 lost an evacuation slide on decent to EKCH. Flight completed safely, but slide was torn off.
http://politiken.dk/indland/article225052.ece

that's a strange looking 757 ...... :{

http://politiken.dk/archive/00167/Fl...th_167787c.jpg

Politiken.dk caption actually acknowledges that photo is not related to incident

Ah ..... now it all makes sense ...... a totally irrelevant photo accompanying the incident report ..... it almost makes you feel at home .... :p

Icelandair 757 slide deployment
 

Is this likely to cause any real damage to the a/c? I read on another news site the Danish Accident Investigation Board saying there maybe structural damage. Any views appreciated.

The wingslide tore off quickly during the descent, and hit the elevator and did some damage to it. The crew did not realise what had happened until after the landing. They just felt a small bump and the aircraft went a little bit out if trim. The aircraft is at least still grounded at EKCH, and will be for a few days.

Icelandic_pilot.
Thanks for mentioning it was a wing slide. I couldn't quite visualize a door slide inflating in the aircraft, blowing off a door, and nobody being particularly concerned.... :)

Similar thing took place on a United 757 in May. Not sure if there are many other recorder incidents. At least nothing serious seems to have resulted.

It has happened a number of times on B767 aircraft over the years.:uhoh:

There was a lot of damage on the elevator as a result of the wingslide hitting it during the descent. Icelandair did not get a approval to ferry the aircraft to homebase BIKF.

Something like this has never happened before on a Icelandair 757, and they have operated the 757 since 1989, and now have 19 757's.

I remember in 1995 I was working for AAI on Haji in Jeddah we lost an overwing slide, never did recover it probably has pride of place in some Bedouin tent in the empty quarter.

very fortunate to have satisfactory outcome....:D

the consequences of a chunk of metal causing severe damage to or separation of elevator in flight do'nt bear thinking about......:oh:

For MATKAT:

This is not the first slide/raft or whatever which has departed an Icelandic (AAI) aircraft. The slide you lost during Hadj was followed by another in 1999 on a ferry flight from LUX-MSP.

As a fairly junior F/O, I could not believe that the Icelandic Captain didn't feel compelled, nor obligated, to even report it after landing in Manston. The only indication we had was an overwing door open light climbing thru 8000'. No pressurization problems encountered , so off we went. The ground crew in Manston just stood back and pointed as we taxied in.

Somehow, dropping a couple hundred kilo's of orange & yellow rubber over the Ardennes wasn't important enough to even tell anyone. I have always wondered where it landed? No reports from news or company.... or some lucky Belgian kids have been using it for rafting the Meuse?

It boggles.....i

You will find there is a BIG difference between Icelandair (ICE) who lost the slide, and Air Atlanta Icelandic (AAI).
Icelandair have quite a good maint record, AAI have something completely different :ouch:
Happy sliding :E

I agree My 737 ;)

For your info, that particular aircraft has only been in service at Icelandair for 2 years. Previous owner was Iberia.

Paladini, the O/W escape slide is outside the pressure hull therefore no pressure problems would be encountered however find it hard to understand why the captain would not mention it and indeed the only indication you would get is the O/W door light.

My737 as an ex AAI certifying engineer(4 years) B747 could you elaborate on the statement you made reference maintenance?

Matkat: Am fully aware of the hull configuration. The checklist states if there are no apparent pressurization problems, you may continue the flight. BTW, the door was pretty banged up but stayed in place. However, new yellow/orange stripes added very little aesthetic beauty to the underside of the Horizontal stab.

After flying with AAI since '98, I too, would be very interested in My737's defence of his rather incendiary and unsubstantiated B/s comment. Considering the sheer number of sectors we fly, on a very diverse fleet, with an even more diverse crews and MX personnel, AAI MX is pretty damned good!

The ONLY problem we have with MX on the line is that the poor buggers have very little time to do preventative MX on the birds, as we keep 'em flying so much! Hats are off to the AAI wrench turners in my book! :ok:

Perhaps we should return this thread to an (ICE) motif, eh? Too many people with NO first hand experience slagging AAI off anyway.

Paladini, thanks you very much for your reasoned and sensible comments, though I no longer work for AAI I more than remember the work being done you are spot when you mention the preventative maintenance issue in MAD we were worked off our feet just to keep them flying and it never did help when comments like 737s were made, the guys I worked with and was in charge of at AAI were hard working and dedicated professionals sadly never appreciated by either AAI management or more sadly by Our flight deck collegues(not all obviously).

Yer welcome Matkat. Being ex-mil tends to give one a healthy appreciation of the support folks. Without you guys, we don't fly! No question.