{"id":430563,"date":"2026-05-18T02:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/british-airways-rookie-flight-attendant-777-slide-100k\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:40:32","slug":"not-again-rookie-british-airways-attendant-triggers-777-slide-costs-airline-over-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=430563","title":{"rendered":"Not Again: Rookie British Airways Attendant Triggers 777 Slide, Costs Airline Over $100k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span> flight attendant, reportedly working just their second day on the job, accidentally deployed an emergency slide on a Boeing 777 as it was pushing back from the gate on Saturday. Emergency services attended the scene before the carrier replaced the deployed slide, and the flight from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259797\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london-heathrow-airport\/\"  >London Heathrow Airport<\/a><\/span> (LHR) to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/washington-dulles-international-airport\/\"  >Washington Dulles International Airport<\/a><\/span> (IAD) did not depart for another six hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers were delayed by over six hours and engineers replaced the slide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,737,1513,8415,1022,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-777","category-british-airways","category-emergency-slide","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430566,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430563\/revisions\/430566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}