Airbus A380 has hitch with escape slides: report

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BERLIN (AFP) - A380 super jumbo, the world's largest passenger aircraft, has encountered problems with its inflatable escape slides, the Internet site of the Germany weekly Stern reported Saturday.

The explosive charges meant to inflate the slides in just a few seconds during an emergency evacuation were deteriorating over time and becoming unusable, said the report

hmmmm somewhat serious but i hope they get ontop of the issue and ontop of the company that makes them:

US group BF Goodrich


Goodrich should know better tbh they have years of experience in this field.

No, they really don't. These slides are MUCH bigger than anything that was done before. The system that worked on previous slides won't work on these because they're so much bigger. They're using a system that was never adapted for use on aircraft, and trying to make it work. It didn't work as well as they hoped, so they have to find a new way to make it work.