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Old Aug 5, 2011 | 11:53 pm
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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).
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