Delta Flight Attendant’s $70,000 Slide Blunder Leaves Passengers Stranded
A Routine Departure Turns Chaotic on the Tarmac Passengers aboard Delta Connection flight 3248 (operated by Endeavor Air) at Pittsburgh International Airport got a shock before takeoff when the plane’s forward evacuation slide suddenly burst out of the front door. The Airbus A220 was parked at gate D2, preparing for an on-time 5:30 p.m. departure to Salt Lake City, when the emergency slide unexpectedly deployed onto the jet bridge area viewfromthewing.com viewfromthewing.com. Crew members had just finished the standard pre-departure drill of arming the doors – a safety step that engages each door’s escape slide for automatic inflation if opened