BRITISH AIR CREW MEMBER ACCIDENTALLY RELEASES EMERGENCY SLIDE

A British Airways crew member on Monday accidentally deployed a plane’s emergency slide while the plane was waiting to depart Heathrow Airport in London. The plane, an Airbus A321, had been waiting to take passengers to Brussels, Belgium, when an unnamed crew member inadvertently activated the chute. Passengers were delayed for three hours as British Airways tried to find a new plane. The cost of repacking the emergency door: $122,000.
* Time for a refresher course on the parts of an airplane.
* Never put the garment closet next to the emergency door on an airplane.
* Now the crew member’s sliding right into unemployment.
* What did the passengers say when they were delayed three hours? “Well, chute!”
* At least it happened on the ground. They usually do Boeing plane door checks midflight.