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Old Aug 10, 2010 | 12:58 pm
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Originally Posted by cordelli
Or from Heather over on Gadling

Not just because it costs a hundred thousand (at least!) to repack a slide
Yeah, well some kid posting from his mom's basement on airliners.net said they cost a million dollars.

Seriously though, I think the quote from B6 may be a bit high, but they are probably adding on the costs of the aircraft being out of service, etc. in addition to the cost of the slide itself.
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