A Delta Air Lines flight arriving in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 25 was delayed from returning to Salt Lake City, Utah, after a flight attendant inadvertently deployed the aircraft’s emergency slide while opening the door at the gate.

The incident occurred on Delta Flight 3248 aboard an Airbus A220-300 plane servicing the route from Salt Lake City to Pittsburgh. A Delta spokesperson told Newsweek that “while the aircraft door was being opened, crew inadvertently deployed an emergency slide at the arrival gate in PIT [Pittsburgh International Airport].”

A photograph of the deployed slide surfaced on social media, posted on Reddit by u/SF-Coyote. The post was titled “Flight attendant said he was terribly sorry, no going home tonight.” The post has garnered 19,000 upvotes s

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