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 ...

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 ...

An emergency evacuation using the aircraft's escape slides can be a particularly traumatic experience, and as passengers, we ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO— Discretely contained within main cabin doors or inside a fuselage compartment adjacent to an over-wing exit, escape slides are incorporating new material technology, resulting in ...

Latest version of the SurvitecZodiac MIS MES escape slide & liferaft system is fitted to the new ferry 'Uraniborg'. The Uraniborg, owned by Ventrafiken, was recently completed at the Hvide Sande ...

The flight from Zurich landed safely at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. It wasn't a bird or a plane hurtling from the sky, although it did fall from the latter. The Federal Aviation Administration said they ...

Emergency slide falls from United Airlines fight, lands in Chicago backyard The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an incident after a Chicago resident found an emergency escape slide in ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed another directive to tackle uncommanded slide deployments on Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) and 737 MAX aircraft, expanding the number of 737s ...

Omaha-area high schools, especially some of the older ones, have plenty of quirks, from a hidden pool to a fire escape slide. Duchesne Academy once had a fire escape slide that students would sneak ...