US investigating after United flight loses emergency slide

Flight 12 from Zurich touched down in Chicago without inflatable slide – which was found four miles away in resident’s backyard

The Federal Aviation Administration 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 see have to see, let alone use, in real life – was discovered on the ground.

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