B737 Slide raft goes wrong

[bommmmmmmm]

737 is so low to the ground you may as well jump rather than wait for it to inflate

[TheAirflyer]

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH FAIL!

[GoodrichTires]

FAIL THATS RIGHT FOLKS U WOULD HAVE DIED IN ACCEDENT

[kkreicker1]

the door was un armed...

[Tjita1]

Why is that failed? If I remember it correctly on the 737 among others, you have to unhook the slide from the door and move it to the doorway after it is inflated.

[elvigia666]

The fact that you are allowed to connect it to the door is the most scary part., shouldnt fit in any other place than its supposed one on the floor...

[houstontexan36]

@KriVaDesign I would love to try that

[matthiashaenni]

In an emergency: Double shit happens!

[EinkOLED]

There is a detachment lace designed to be pulled and allow the slide to be detached from the skirt housing in the event of the slide catching fire or used as life raft.

In this video it looks as though the girt bar was not attached to the floor and the guy had pulled it manually.

[houstontexan36]

@olala77777 the forward doors on a 737 can be detached and used as rafts

[KriVaDesign]

@houstontexan36 I really would like to see you try that...

[sctt2000]

#lol



[KINDspotting]

Wouldn't do much good in that position, would it? #LOL

[94Mates]

good :D

[florentlondon]

oh shit im flying on a 737 400 ba to london tomorrow what if we had an emergency and the slide went out like that loooooooool

[andremp03]

That is a spectacular fail.

[olala77777]

B737 NG doesn't have slide/raft, (that B757 has, for example) wich could be used as raft. Raft can be detached from the door sill, but must be used in water only as hand held.

[welshie2903]

I'd like to point out that when the door is put into automatic, a pair of feet move out and lock the girt bar in place. maybe the door wasn't rigged properly, or the feet were missing....

[superjjskate]

all i could say is LOL

[Greenman5582]

That's what hapens when you froget to atcach the slide. EPIC FAIL.

[adamsmrt]

OOPS!

[DeadRaymanWalking]

Epic Fail for the plane.

[hearts76100]

LADDER ANYBODY???

[iwantpk2]

GO-GO-GO!

WHAHAAAAAAAA

[fredvonnothing]

the plane is going by the idea of survival of the fittest, the ones that can jump can survive .. the fatties .. well they have broken legs.

[asuch874]

A slide built just 4 stunt passengers!!!

[mariocokefoot]

Fail

[mboz38]

LOL fail!

[weementalmadcraig]

was this taken at british airways maintenance glasgow (BAMG)

[medicpack6]

well thats no good

[Ludsy2001]

It failed because the door was not opened properly. One swift quick motion prevents what just happened.

[wizzair1313]

its attached to the door? so you would have to jump sidewase?

[mugsylol]

fail...

[DIMATIF]

open the door fully fool

[olala77777]

There is no slide raft on B737, just slide!

[bob44mcc]

yeah you can sit inside the other side of the slide...Dont know about you but i would sit in it rather than stay in the freezing cold water...

[legofreak1109]

@bob44mcc hell yeah

[eshtebe]

@bob44mcc actually, you can use it as a flotation device, but it is not certified as a raft..

[stothem1234]

@bob44mcc Is that Glasgow?

[costateguise]

@olala77777 The slide is the raft. If the plane lands on water the slide shoots out and is then used as a raft rather than a device for sliding down. If on ground of course passengers just slide down.

[EinkOLED]

Actually on the 737 NG and depending on the airline, you can detach the slide from it's lacing and use as a sort of raft. It may also be detached if the slide catches fire.

[TheGreatFlyer]

What went wrong?

[smzyjt]

the slide should connect on the floor, not on the gate

[AcepilotC172]

at least on this one it was MX doing a test no one of the damn drink serving sky whores fucking up again

[DominoFaz]

Does the A320 use girt bars?

[slopegeek]

No. In the forward and aft doors the slides/rafts are stored in the door and controlled (assuming armed) by the door handle and hinge mechanism. On the A321, the center doors have the slides/rafts in compartments below the doors but within the fuselage.

[krejzliselecta]

And also there is a slide in the wing to body of the a 320.

[surcaribe85]

yes

[surcaribe85]

there is one which needs to be disconnected once the slide is deployed in order to release the raft from the aircraft.. something by the way the USAirways hudson crew did not do.. tsk tsk tsk.

[DominoFaz]

You could just jump it looking at how low the aircraft is.

[The2Turtlez]

The aircraft door is elevated about 25 feet from ground, so jumping wouldn't be a good idea, would it?

[maverick967]

its actually about 15ft on the 737 but still probably not a good idea to jump but in an emergency it might be necessary

[Dez75]

It cant of been armed properly!

[ABN2808]

...omg

how f'n handy!!

;[

[maximusboscus]

The door can slide now!!! LOL

[stellisnba]

lol. the slide raft is useless in the 737... u could have easily jumped out since the aircraft is sow low! :p

[CAKEvid]

this isn´t the simpsons right whaha xD

[nolafb]

boeing its all about boeing

[topper2142]

lol nice!

[GreekDestination]

lol and its supposed to be British Airways..one of the world's best airlines ... =/

[thomthom34]

very bad

[DaveWBedford]

Doesn't surprise me one bit. Not only is it fatally flawed, you're screwed even if you do survive a 737 crash.

The message is simple. Fly Airbus.

[Joonatanp99]

Well i think that the 757 is quite safe, too.

I have flew it many times

[scaremenga]

The Boeing 737 is safe, but prone to danger from FOD"s due to it's engines being relatively lower to the ground than other jet's... but nevertheless it must be considered that with over 6,000 737's made (more than tuploev combined) and very few crashes (most hapening in the post NG era) it has a good safety record..

[FlightCrewWannaBe]

and it was in service with that defect?

[airberlin160]

lol

[filipinoboy147]

um i dont think it suppost to do that

[kyleg1471]

lol

[djmaster1995]

Lol Wrong side

[pidgeblev]

i mean arming the slide - hopefully not blowing it!!!

[pidgeblev]

U arm the Girt bar to the floor brackets - so when u open the door in emergency, the slide falls from the inside compartment of the door still attached to the floor brackets which will automatically deploy the slide! If the slide fails then you pull the manual inflation handle (usually red in colour) to inflat. I will be doing this procedure shortly as i'm getting ready for work!!

[SoccerGoalkeeper]

During a real Crash, this could be Very costly. Something malfuctioned. Maybe it wasn't armed correctly. Hasn't it been cross checked?

[DominoFaz]

That would be a jump tp get onto the slide

[letecoo]

Is here any acft mechanic from foreign country?

[pa320k]

JAJAJAJA!

[bob44mcc]

I think the guys in the cabin made a mess of installing the bar before they opened the door.

I,m not 100% as I was outside filming it at the time

[DominoFaz]

Don't you just arm the door and open to deploy the slide.

Isn't the girt bar just for raft deployment?

[bob44mcc]

got to manualy apply the girt bar to arm the slide

[DominoFaz]

So should it be applied already?

[bob44mcc]

some checks you have to deploy the slide,and check time taken etc for deployment.Install girt bar and open door to watch if it operates correctly

[Planeguy13]

Did someone incorrectly mount the girt bar?

[jbateson101]

i think so! not hard