Airplane's evacuation slide deploys midflight

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

ST. LOUIS -- An evacuation slide inflated inside a United Airlines plane as it flew from Chicago to Southern California, filling part of the cabin and prompting the pilot to make an emergency landing in Kansas.

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