Delta flight makes emergency return after exit slide separates from Boeing aircraft

33 year old plane so unlikely to be a manufacturing defect.
More likely problem with process of returning the plane from storage or a defective slide inflating on its own.

I was on a Delta flight this week, an Airbus, the wifi stopped working. Does that make Airbus a bad airplane manufacturer? Every little headline these days are destroying the Boeing image. No doubt they've had their issues, but this incident is clearly in Delta's lap.

Delta pilot friend told me “Hell, you don’t need that thing!”
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When you are in the spotlight for the reasons Boeing is, you have to expect any problem is going to add to that spotlight, whether related to or not. I understand how this article could seem like an attack on Boeing, but imo, it was to the point and delivered the details of the incident. If the author made no mention of the aircraft type, people would still describe their work as bad journalism for not reporting on the a/c type. Boeing has to ride this storm out and rebuild confidence in the public before any bad publicity, their fault or not, goes away.

Not a Boeing problem. Maintenance or lack of is most likely the problem.

Doesn't the aircraft door have to be open for an emergency slide to separate from an aircraft?

News is so bad in Aviation... Of course he had to circle.. Had to burn off fuel... NPR should get out of posting aircraft news as well as all the Main Stream Media... No one was ever in Danger, they cannot get it right because they are clueless on Aviation. This is nothing more than an article to Slam Boeing and it probably goes back to improper maintenance by Delta!

Consider the age generation of A&P mechanics, quality controllers, rampers, flight crew, etc. These are X,Y,Z Generations who have made no secret of their desires to place their work dedication BELOW everything else in their lives. What would you expect the reasonable outcome to be?? Every industry is impacted by this and it's only going to get worse. (You should hear the horror stories coming out of medical school these days as another example.)

Sounds like a Delta problem not Boeing but hey you found a Boeing AC that had a problem, HO HUM

boeing builds deffective airliners, but once delta maintence got their hands on this latest malfunctuner, and they then cleared it for return to the flight line, boeing wqas no longer the root of the problem.