Letting It Slide

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • Airplane scrapping is a significant industry where most aircraft components are reduced to their elemental origins, with some parts being salvaged.
  • A crucial part of the decommissioning process involves ensuring safety by disabling all emergency equipment.
  • This disabling is often achieved by deploying the equipment, such as emergency door slides, a process documented by Aircraft End Of Life Solutions.
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Scrapping airplanes is a big business and while some parts can be salvaged and resold, the reality is most are reduced to their elemental origins. Part of the process is making everything safe and that means disabling all the emergency equipment. The most expedient way to do that is to let them do their thing and Aircraft End Of Life Solutions immortalized the decommissioning of an emergency door slide.

Russ Niles

Russ Niles is Editor-in-Chief of AVweb. He has been a pilot for 30 years and joined AVweb 22 years ago. He and his wife Marni live in southern British Columbia where they also operate a small winery.
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