Military personnel accidentally triggered Air Force One emergency slide ahead of Trump’s flight to Dallas

Military personnel accidentally triggered an inflatable slide attached to President Donald Trump’s Qatari-donated Air Force One plane Wednesday, a person briefed on the matter told NBC News.

The slide inflated just before Trump was set to board the plane and head to Dallas for the GOP midterm convention. Instead of immediately exiting Marine One to board the plane as he usually does, Trump remained on the helicopter for several minutes.

He eventually walked out on the tarmac while officials looked at the slide, telling reporters that they were just “checking the slide.”

“As the President has said, the slide was checked out to make sure everything works perfectly,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said later in a statement. “Air Force One is on its way to Dallas so he can deliver his much-anticipated speech to a raucous and sold-out crowd.”

Trump told reporters before he boarded that there were no security concerns.

“No, they were checking it before, and they just wanted to make sure. So they’ve — I guess they’ve already put it up. They want to make sure everything works perfectly,” he said.

Asked again whether he believed the plane was safe to fly, Trump chuckled and…

Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/business