United Flight Evacuated
 

From MSNBC:

Passengers on a United Airlines flight — including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — were evacuated from a United Airlines jet on Wednesday, NBC News has learned. The pilot reportedly deployed the plane's emergency chutes after reporting an engine issue to the tower.
"Justice Ginsburg was evacuated safely with the other passengers," a Supreme Court spokesperson told NBC News.
United Flight 586 was scheduled to fly from Washington's Dulles International Airport to San Francisco.
Jodi Gersh, the director of social media for Gannett News Services, was onboard the flight, and was posting updates via her Twitter account. "Passengers in front of me saw smoke out window and alerted attendants," she wrote at about 1 p.m. ET. "No serious injuries as far as I can tell. It happened so fast and the attendants were amazing. I'm still shaking as I type this ...
"Hearing of possible broken bones, from the slide landing, but no other serious injureis. They've sent us to the admiral lounge to regroup."
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Deploy the Chutes!!!

Seriously, good job guys landing uneventfully.

Supreme Court justice in emergency evac
 

WASHINGTON (AP) – An official says 78-year-old U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to slide down an emergency chute to evacuate a flight at Dulles International Airport.

A flight Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg aboard had to be evacuated at Dulles International Airport Wednesday.

A Supreme Court spokeswoman, Patricia McCabe Estrada, says Ginsburg was on her way to San Francisco on the Wednesday afternoon flight and was not injured.

Airport spokeswoman Kimberly Gibbs says the United Airlines flight was on the taxiway around 1 p.m. when the pilot noticed a problem with the engine. Gibbs says passengers used emergency chutes to exit.

United spokesman Mike Trevino says one person was injured but he didn't have other details.

Trevino says 179 passengers and six crew members were aboard.

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Plane evacuated after engine trouble at Dulles - WTOP.com

I'm impressed if Justice Ginsburg made it through the evacuation unscathed. I saw her give a speech at a conference a few years ago, and she was so frail-looking I was worried that the air currents from the a/c system would blow her over.

Her robe inflated and acted like a parachute on the slide :)

Great job to the entire crew on board!

Hard to say what the engine trouble was, but to dump the chutes on a taxiway when the flight was not in danger seems a little aggressive. I dint know, but from the pics the 75 didn't look bad. Expensive decision. Glad everyone is safe.

The second-guessers, monday-morning QB's, and plaintiff's attorneys will eat you for lunch if you didn't evac and then something bad happened, like maybe a little smoke in the cabin?

With a fire indication of any sort, you can't get in trouble for blowing the doors.

Yes, you are right. Sitting in the front with a fire light, it is hard to question an evac decision. But you know the second-guessers (including myself here LOL) are all going to wonder either way........

Let's see...

Six chutes, a quarter of a million dollars...

Avoiding skin grafts, toxic smoke inhalation, death, and 179 high dollar lawsuits... Priceless.