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The tailcone falls off when using the rear emergency exit. There is a handle by the rear door that you pull on, the cone falls off and a slide deploys.
Here`s a Video from the outside, and this one shows the walkway on the inside before operating the regular airstairs.
Here is how it may look on the safety card:
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It was the MD-88 N941DL.
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Watched this happen live from the balcony of my room at the Renaissance Hotel. Was looking down at my phone as this MD-88 touched down and heard two loud bangs.. knew the tires had burst from the incredibly loud noise; looked up and saw the airplane going down the runway with smoke/fire coming from the right main gear. The PF took the first high speed turnoff at a faster-than-normal speed and brought the plane to a stop clear of 8L. Of course, lots of go arounds and sidesteps to 8R followed.
What really shocked me was how long it took for both the evac to begin, and for fire/rescue to arrive. At least 4-5 minutes. Buddy and I were on the balcony filming, shooting pics, and commenting to each other several minutes after the airplane had stopped that we couldn't believe they weren't evacuating yet, what with the growing fire and black smoke coming from under the right wing.
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Originally posted by Peter Kesternich View PostWell - definitely NOT the way to evacuate... Does anybody know the registration of the poor MD?
By the way - as far as I know Delta flies only MD-88s and no MD-83s.
Definitely not a textbook evac! Does anyone know what flight this was?
EDIT: OK I found this was DL2284 PIT/ATL. Hits a bit close to home this - my wife, 3 children and I live in PIT and were non-revving the same route on 25th. We had to split because the flights were so full.Yet another AD.com convert!
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Originally posted by Theoddkiwi View PostWhy the hell are those people evacuating with their carry on bags? And then they kind of just hang around next to the plane, run away fools!!
Also why does the tail cone fall off?
EDIT: The tailcone falling is supposed to pull a wire that deploys the slide. It would appear this didn't happen here - the tailcone is just left hanging by that wire. That is when the FA has the option of deploying it manually or redirecting psgrs. As the smoke would clearly have been visible - in fact if you look at the video, as soon as the cone pops the smoke starts billowing INTO the hole, the correct decision was made to redirect.
The MD88 relies on gravity to shake the tailcone free, the MD90 uses a charge to detonate it off.Yet another AD.com convert!
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