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UNCOVERED: Us investigating after united flight loses emergency slide | History Defined

The Federal Aviation Administration is the lead agency looking into the mishap.
The Federal Aviation Administration is the lead agency looking into the mishap. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday evening that it was investigating when happened when a flight landed in the midwest but was discovered to be missing its emergency evacuation slide.

The inflatable slide, so familiar in theory to millions of passengers from the safety-briefing videos that precede take-off – but which most hope they will never have to see, let alone use, in real life – was discovered on the ground.

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