The emergency slide that fell from a Delta Air Lines jet that left JFK Airport on Friday was discovered two days later, having washed up in front of the beachfront home of a lawyer whose firm is suing Boeing over safety issues. The Post reported.
Jake Bissell Linsk, a New York attorney whose firm filed a lawsuit against Boeing in the wake of January’s Alaska Airlines door explosion, told the Post that around noon Sunday, He said he was surprised when he looked out the window of his waterfront home in Belle Harbor. Queens.
There, he told the Post, was the emergency slide that had fallen from a Boeing 767 airliner, which by a strange coincidence had become trapped on a rock within a few feet of his front yard.
“We were right on the beach and saw it stuck on the breakers,” Bissell-Linske told the Post.
Authorities had been searching for the missing slide in Jamaica Bay since Friday afternoon, but it turned out the slide was farther away than expected because Bissell-Lynsk’s home faces the Atlantic Ocean.
Belle Harbor is located 9 miles southeast of JFK International Airport.
The emergency slide was discovered right next to Beach 129.th and beach 130th A street on the south shore of the Rockaway Peninsula.
Bissell-Linske said as she went outside to get a closer look at the deflated yellow slide, it appeared to be intact despite being entangled in rocks and floating in the waves.
“I didn’t want to touch it, but I got close enough to see it,” Bissell-Linske told the Post. “Our case is all about Boeing safety issues, and this slide is literally right in front of my house.”
A few hours later, around 5 p.m., a Delta employee arrived. They fished the chute out of the water and threw it into the back of a pickup truck, he said.
“My neighbor called the FAA hotline, but it’s closed on Sundays,” Bissellinske said. “That’s why he just called Delta.”
“This Delta truck pulls up and watches them pull them out of the water,” Bissell-Linske said. “It took about 10 minutes.”
Friday’s freak accident triggered an emergency alert around 8:30 a.m. on board Delta Air Lines Flight 520, which had left Queens Airport an hour earlier for Los Angeles.
“Delta Airlines Flight 520 returned safely to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at approximately 8:35 a.m. local time on Friday, April 26, after a flight attendant reported vibrations,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement to the Post on Monday. I did,” he said.
“The FAA is investigating. Please contact your carrier for more information.”
“Delta Air Lines confirms the recovery of the emergency exit slide. As indicated on Friday, we will fully cooperate with all related investigations,” a Delta spokesperson told the Post on Monday afternoon. .
Bissell Linsk is a partner at the law firm Labaton Keller Suchalow. The company sued Boeing on January 30 in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. The company claims the airline made false and misleading statements about safety in the wake of the Alaska Airlines door explosion.
The incident shattered the aerospace giant’s reputation, and the company’s CEO subsequently signaled his intention to step down later this year.
Rabaton said that the period from Oct. 23, 2019, when Boeing announced its focus on safety, to Jan. 24, 2024, more than two weeks after the Boeing 737 Max’s door flew off on Jan. 5. Representing individuals who purchased Boeing common stock during the period. Alaska Airlines flight.
Bissellinske said he expected aviation authorities to investigate what caused the slide to fall from the plane.
“I think the slides should be turned over to the people investigating the case.”
Mr. Labaton’s lawsuit is currently being consolidated with other similar lawsuits, and Labaton, who is co-lead counsel in the consolidated case, plans to file an amended complaint within two months.
“We have not yet determined whether this slide is relevant to our lawsuit,” Bisselinsk said.
