India, Sept. 10 -- United States President Donald Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One saw a delay as he was preparing to travel to a Republican Party convention in Dallas from Joint Base Andrews. The accidental deployment of an emergency inflatable slide slide caused a delay. Later, Trump said that his Air Force One aircraft was safe to fly.

Trump, who was preparing to travel to a Republican Party convention in Dalla had to wait in his helicopter before being able to board the plane. "They're checking the slide over here, and I think it's going to take 15 minutes," Trump told reporters on the tarmac before boarding.

But a person briefed on the situation later told news agency AFP that "military personnel accidentally triggered the slide...