Did Boeing (and hopefully the rest of the aerospace industry) figure this out after the Gimli Glider (AC fin #604) ditched on an old air-force field and the 767-200=B9s nose collapsed and folks had to egress from the rear door= s with the slides dangling just above the ground? On 8/29/02 12:26 PM, "RT Simpson" <BraniffIntl@aol.com> wrote: > The good news continues to be there > were no major injuries to the 159 people aboard - which is a miracle as t= he > rear inflatable slide did not come in contact with the ground because the > tail was so high in the air! Those passengers dropped almost vertically = to > the ground. >=20 > RT Simpson > Phoenix >=20 --=20 Matthew Montano -- mailto:mmontano@direct.ca