It’s something you hope you’ll never use, but you’re thankful it’s there in case of emergency. Whoosh! The inflatable evacuation slide, standard equipment in commercial airlines worldwide, is a ...

Swedish commuter ferry operator Stirsöbolage has become the first Scandinavian company to benefit from the new Zodiac MES ESS automatic escape slide. This follows the installation of three 3.4 meter ...

Survitec Group is promoting its range of Marine Evacuation Systems (MES) at SMM 2014. The company said it can supply systems to suit every type of vessel, from small high speed ferries through to ...

An evacuation slide deployed while a United Airlines Boeing 757-300 destined for Chicago was boarding for an 8:40 a.m. departure this morning. All passengers on the sold-out flight had to deplane and ...

The images are terrifying: Hundreds of passengers struggling to get off a burning Boeing 777 after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in July. “We are so incredibly lucky that many ...

We've all been there. You're stuck on a plane, somewhere near the back, and if that kid kicks the back of your seat again you swear you're going to pull the emergency exit and jump right on the tarmac ...

The inflatable air slide on a Delta flight from JFK to LAX was deployed inside the plane on Saturday. The plane had made an unexpected landing in Utah to fix a technical problem, the New York Post ...

Airbus is seeking a substantial increase this year in the operational duration of cartridges used to activate escape slides on the A380, after admitting that it currently has to replace the components ...

SpaceX has tested the emergency chutes that could save astronauts’ lives during a launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A new video shared by the company on X-formerly-Twitter shows a person ...

An improperly closed door is the suspected cause of an escape slide falling from an airplane and landing in the yard of an Adams Street home on Dec. 1, a preliminary report on the incident from the ...