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Old May 5, 2022, 9:31 am
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Passenger Wing Walker after landing -- UA 2478 at ORD
A man on arriving United flight 2478 at ORD this morning opened an overwing exit and walked across the wing to the tarmac. I would assume the slide deployed but it doesn't say. Edit: perhaps there aren't any slides on the 737 overwing exits. Lucky for United.

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The 737 over-wing exits do not have slides.
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Police told WGN a man onboard the plane pulled the emergency exit door and walked out onto the wing of the plane, then slid down onto the airfield
That's quite a large drop, isn't it?

35 feet to ground? Or 40?
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Originally Posted by Wooglin
That's quite a large drop, isn't it?

35 feet to ground? Or 40?
I don't think it's more that 6 or 7 feet to the ground from the wing...
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Originally Posted by bmwe92fan
I don't think it's more that 6 or 7 feet to the ground from the wing...
I just looked it up- it's only 12 ft from the wingtip, so your estimate is likely close.

I am going to blame the Cinco de Mayo drink special at the UC just now for my horrible initial estimation.
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Originally Posted by DLASflyer
A man on arriving United flight 2478 at ORD this morning opened an overwing exit and walked across the wing to the tarmac. I would assume the slide deployed but it doesn't say. Edit: perhaps there aren't any slides on the 737 overwing exits. Lucky for United.

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/...ohare-airport/
"Hey, Mom - I see footprints on the wing..."

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Originally Posted by Wooglin
That's quite a large drop, isn't it?
35 feet to ground? Or 40?
Roughly six feet with the flaps retracted. In an evacuation we'd fully-extend the flaps to aid in the evacuation.
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Originally Posted by DELee
"Hey, Mom - I see footprints on the wing..."

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There's someone on the wing!

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Originally Posted by LarryJ
The 737 over-wing exits do not have slides.
Plus, I thought that on some planes (with window exits), you have to pull something to inflate the slides
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Plus, I thought that on some planes (with window exits), you have to pull something to inflate the slides
Yet another reason I read the safety card even if not sitting in an exit row.
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Old May 5, 2022, 6:38 pm
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Plus, I thought that on some planes (with window exits), you have to pull something to inflate the slides
I don't know of any that do not deploy automatically but I haven't flown every aircraft type. They do (I suspect all of them) have a manual method of deploying the slide if the automatic system fails.
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Originally Posted by LarryJ
I don't know of any that do not deploy automatically but I haven't flown every aircraft type. They do (I suspect all of them) have a manual method of deploying the slide if the automatic system fails.
That would make sense, the safety card might have said something like "if fail's to inflate, pull handle" I just distinctly remember a picture of a handle.
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