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"It is our
understanding that she deployed it intentionally," said United
Airlines spokesman Charlie Hobart, adding airline officials have
been speaking with the flight attendant to see why she deployed
the slide in the incident that took place on Monday.
In a video shown on Houston TV station KPRC, the flight
attendant tosses her bag out of a door behind the cockpit and
slides down the slide. She grabs the bag and walks away from the
plane, which was at full stop.
A photo of the airplane on the station's website shows it at the
gate, with the slide deployed on the side opposite of the gate.
The flight, with 159 passengers and six crew members aboard, was
from Sacramento to Houston's George Bush Intercontinental
Airport. The airplane, a Boeing 737-900, was briefly taken out
of service for maintenance and then was returned to its
scheduled use.
The flight attendant, who was not identified by the airline, has
been removed from flying duties. All the others aboard exited
the plane without incident or injury.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
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