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July 9th, 2026

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Creme de la Weird

News of the Weird

By News of the Weird

Published July 9, 2026

Creme de la Weird

The latest plane failure story -- about the emergency slide that fell off a Boeing 767 leaving JFK Airport last week -- gets a "whodathunkit" follow-up, the New York Post reported.

The slide washed up right in front of the beachside home in Belle Harbor, Queens, of Jake Bissell-Linsk, who happens to be the attorney who filed a federal lawsuit against Boeing after the Alaska Airlines door blowout.

Belle Harbor is about 6 miles southeast of JFK.

"I didn't want to touch it, but I got close enough to get a close look at it," Bissell-Linsk said.

He said a Delta Airlines crew arrived a few hours later and threw the slide into the back of a truck.

"We haven't decided if the slide is relevant to our case," he noted.