Originally Posted by UAL T38 Phlyer

I saw a pic that showed the aft-left was folded and twisted. That's surprising, since I thought Boeing and the slide companies learned their lesson after Pan Am 845 in SFO (1971; emergency evac after shearing the body gear off from hitting the departure-end approach lights of 1L). It was a really windy day, and the slides looked like the waving-arm-tube man at your local car dealer. Supposedly all 747 slides were changed to a more rigid variety after that; I would have thought all others would have been designed to such a standard.