Wizz Air flight delayed in Kaunas over inflated evacuation slide

A Wizz Air flight from Kaunas to London was delayed on Wednesday after one of its evacuation slides inflated at the airport.

According to the public broadcaster LRT, the airliner had to take off before noon but was still at the airport in the evening.

Lithuanian Airports’ representative Marius Zelenius said that 218 passengers had been registered for the flight and 50 agreed to fly to London on the delayed flight.

One eyewitness told the news website 15min.lt, that a passenger refused to place her carry-on bag under the seat and thus a flight attendant wanted to remove the passenger from the plane but an evacuation slide was accidentally activated.

The news agency ELTA later learned from Zelenius that the plane in question with some 170 passengers took off from Kaunas to London Luton Airport at 6:57 p.m. after the issue was sorted.