AvTalk Episode 225: The escaping escape slide
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
Flightradar24
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a United 767’s escape slide escapes the aircraft just before landing in Chicago, Northern Pacific is off to a shaky start, and some airline worker unions are quite pleased while others are ready to strike. Escape slide escapes A United Airlines 767 on approach to Chicago from Zurich lost […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 225 of Avtalk. I am Ian Petchenik here as always with |
| 0:16.4 | Jason Rabitowitz. Happy Wednesday Ian. How are you? |
| 0:19.6 | Happy Wednesday Jason. I'm well, how are you sir? I'm good. It's Wednesday. Boring work week. Not much going on. Not much in the way of news. Some interesting things, but not a whole ton. It's summer people don't want to be doing anything. |
| 0:33.6 | No, it's definitely the middle of the vacation slash holiday period where |
| 0:41.9 | making sure that at least one person is in the office just to keep an eye on things is where we're at. |
| 0:49.0 | Send the work email and I dare you to find someone to a group of people that you're not going to get an |
| 0:54.4 | auto reply from that says sorry I'm out of the office I'll be back in like two weeks. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah there's a lot going on though as far as aviation. |
| 1:01.7 | Aviation events are concerned. We just had the Royal International Air |
| 1:05.8 | Tattoo last week in the UK and then they could actually get off the ground. |
| 1:10.8 | Exactly. Yeah, well I mean it is you know the ground. Exactly. Yeah. Well, I mean, it is, you know, the UK summer weather. It delivers as promised. |
| 1:18.1 | And then Oshkosh is coming up. Well, Oshkosh begins this weekend. So we'll talk a little bit more about that in the show later on, get into some detail and things like that. But aside from our first story, it's been a relatively quiet week, but this was anything but quiet for the people that were in the house. |
| 1:37.0 | You've got some local news. |
| 1:39.0 | I do, yeah local news, indeed. |
| 1:41.0 | So a United 767 300 ER on approach to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport |
| 1:48.0 | from Zurich landed a little bit lighter than it should have earlier this week. This was Monday, the 17th of July. |
| 1:56.3 | United Flight 12 as it was on final approach, runway 28th Center, lost one of its escape slides. |
| 2:03.4 | Where did it go? |
| 2:04.6 | Ah, where did they lose it? |
| 2:07.2 | Yeah, well, they lost it over somebody's house. |
| 2:10.9 | This slide, so this was one of the off-wing, we don't know which off-wing escape slide, |
| 2:15.9 | what right or left side, but it was one of the off-wing 767 escape slides. It deployed and detached from the aircraft as the aircraft was going about |
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