If a door is not armed or the slide fails to deploy, what is the consequence?

• A. The exit cannot be used for evacuation and alternate exits must be used.
• B. The exit can still be used with extra caution.
• C. The door will automatically arm later.
• D. The crew will open a different exit.

Answer: (A)

Arming a door and its slide provides the safe, ready-to-deploy path for evacuees. If a door isn’t armed or the slide doesn’t deploy, there is no safe egress from that exit, so it cannot be used in an evacuation. Passengers must use other exits that have functioning slides and are armed for immediate evacuation. The other options aren’t correct because a non-armed or failed slide exit isn’t made safe by caution, it won’t auto-arm later, and while the crew will direct passengers to available exits, the key consequence is that this exit cannot be used.