Originally Posted by
ESpen36
While I'm glad that nobody was hurt...wow, that's a pretty expensive "oops" for AA. Those slides are extremely expensive to replace. According to
Elliott Hester, a single 767 slide goes for as much as $60,000! Big bucks.
Wow, UA had one of their 747-400 on display for their SFO Friends and Family weekend and demo'ed the emergency slide... I guess that was one expensive show (for about 10 seconds).