The emergency slide that fell off a Boeing plane in New York reportedly washed up outside the home of a lawyer who is suing the manufacturer over safety concerns.
Los Angeles-bound Delta flight 520 was diverted back JFK Airport on Friday after the right wing inflatable slide fell off about an hour into its cross-country journey.
The Boeing 767 plane was an hour into its journey when the freak incident set off an emergency alarm and authorities initially believed the slide may have fallen into Jamaica Bay.
Residents of Belle Harbor, Queens discovered the deflated slide caught in the jetty at Beach 130th on Sunday, reported local newspaper The Wave.
‘We are right on the beach and I saw it was sitting on the breakers,’ Jake Bissell-Linsk, Belle Harbor resident and Partner at Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, told The New York Post.
Residents of Belle Harbor, Queens discovered the deflated slide caught in the jetty at Beach 130th on Sunday
Delta Airlines employees retrieved the suspected missing emergency slide during low tide on Sunday
The Boeing emergency slide that fell off Delta flight on Friday reportedly washed up in Belle Harbor, Queens
‘I didn’t want to touch it but I got close enough to get a close look at it. My neighbor called the FAA hotline and they are closed on Sundays, so he just called Delta.’
Delta Airlines employees retrieved the suspected missing emergency slide during low tide on Sunday, reported Rockaway Times.
‘I see this Delta truck pull up and watch them pull it out of the water, it took them about 10 minutes,’ he said.
Federal Aviation Administration Administrator records indicate that the plane is 33 years old.
Friday’s terror began after crew heard a strange ‘non-routine’ noise near the right wing and noticed a flight deck indication related to the emergency exit slide.
‘As nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people, Delta flight crews enacted their extensive training and followed procedures to return to JFK,’ a Delta spokesperson said.
‘We appreciate their professionalism and our customers’ patience for the delay in their travels.’
The FAA confirmed it is now probing the incident.
‘Delta Air Lines Flight 520 returned safely to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York around 8:35 a.m. local time on Friday, April 26, after the crew reported a vibration,’ a spokesman said.
The incident is the latest to hit the aircraft maker following a series of other safety mishaps.
Bissell-Linsk’s firm, Labaton Keller Sucharow, is co-lead counsel in a securities class action against The Boeing Company that argues the manufacturer prioritized profits over safety.
‘Defendants are accused of failing to disclose that, throughout the Class Period, Boeing had been prioritizing its profits over safety, which led to poor quality control standards in the production of its commercial aircrafts such as the 737 MAX, resulting in a heightened risk of manufacturing flaws that could render the Company’s new airplanes unsafe,’ the law firm said.
Resident Jake Bissell-Linsk’s firm, Labaton Keller Sucharow, is suing Boeing over safety concerns that lead to the Alaska Airlines door plug blowout (pictured)
The lawsuit said that following two deadly MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, Boeing spent more than four years assuring investors that it was ‘laser-focused’ on safety and would not sacrifice safety for profit.
Shareholders said Boeing’s statements were false and misleading because they concealed the ‘poor quality control’ on its assembly line, and caused its stock price to be inflated.
Labaton Keller Sucharow sites the investigation into the January 5 midair blowout of door plug on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX.
‘Investigations into the incident led to the discovery of problems with such door plugs on other 737 MAX planes, including loose bolts holding the door plugs in place, further revealing the Company’s manufacturing and production missteps and leading to the grounding of many 737 MAX 9 planes.’
‘Our case is all about safety issues at Boeing, and this slide is literally right in front of my house,’ Bissell-Linsk said. ‘We haven’t decided if the slide is relevant to our case.’
