Emergency slides are installed on planes to save lives – but they deploy with such force that they could take one away.This fact is never lost on cabin crew, with former flight attendant Jay Roberts revealing to MailOnline Travel that accidentally activating an emergency slide 'is a mistake that flight attendants and airport staff worldwide dread, causing so much anxiety we have nightmares about doing it'.Jay, who has worked as senior cabin crew for Emirates and who runs the popular , said: 'Even with several checks and balances involving more than one person to ensure the slides don't open accidentally, mishaps still happen, and at larger airlines, they happen several times a year and cost airlines tens of thousands to repack. In addition to being costly and causing great embarrassment among colleagues, being known as that crew who "blew a slide", the mistake poses a real danger to safety.
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