LOS ANGELES — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to slide down a plane’s emergency chute during an evacuation of a flight at Washington’s Dulles International Airport on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the high court said. The justice was uninjured in the evacuation.
She was en route to San Francisco for a speaking engagement at a law school when her flight had problems, said the spokeswoman, who asked not to be identified. The justice, along with about 178 other passengers, was forced to leave by emergency chute. One injury was reported.
At 78, Ginsburg is the nation’s oldest justice. She has had surgery and chemotherapy for cancer.
“She’s fine,” the court spokeswoman said in a telephone interview.
There was no information about whether Ginsburg would take another flight west.
The incident took place at about 1 p.m. EDT as the United Airlines flight was getting ready to taxi for takeoff.
Los Angeles Times
