Delta flight attendant’s $70,000 mistake — ‘blows evacuation slide, stranding passengers’ | What happened exactly?

A Delta Air Lines (DL) flight attendant accidentally deployed an emergency evacuation slide on an Airbus A220 at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) on Saturday evening (25 October).

The Aviation Z2Z report claimed this caused damage estimated at around $70,000. The flight was also delayed by four hours, from 5:30 pm to 9:11 pm.

What exactly happened?