Delta Boeing 767 jet that dropped emergency slide is 33 years old — well past normal age for active airliner: experts

The Boeing jet that dropped an emergency slide after taking off from JFK Airport on Friday is 33 years old — well past the typical retirement age for a commercial jetliner, according to aviation experts.The chute from Delta Flight 520 had detached from a panel above the right wing shortly after the Los Angeles-bound plane took off from JFK Airport in New York last Friday. The deflated slide was recovered Sunday after it washed up on the Rockaway peninsula, about six miles from JFK, as The Post exclusively r ...