Airbus Deploys 16 Slides On A380 Using Battery Power

Airbus yesterday claimed that its recent emergency slide test set a record for the largest number of evacuation slides ever inflated at the same time in any passenger plane. The manufacturer reported that 16 emergency slides were deployed simultaneously using only the aircraft's battery power. The...

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