Originally Posted by MD80driver2day

Let's not muddy the waters with facts.

The GMM (all you AAY folks have access to it) says all slides will be inspected every 3 years. The GMM, as all our manuals, are FAA approved.

Now the FAA is asking for a 1 year inspection on all slides due to the slide malfunction last week.

The company does a lot of things wrong every day, but this was not one of them.