Before an airline can take to the skies, it needs to pass a tough evacuation test. The crew must evacuate an entire aircraft in under 90 seconds, using only half the emergency exits, to meet the FAA's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Survitec Group announced that it will showcase its SurvitecZodiac range of escape slides and liferafts at the SMM exhibition in Hamburg as part of the Survitec Group Stand (Hall B5, Booth 324) and ...

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 ...

EAM Worldwide is hoping to take on the incumbents in the market for escape slides with its first product in the segment. It has produced a single-lane evacuation slide for Airbus A320-family jets, ...

Pins critical to the correct operation of Boeing 777 escape slides are turning up corroded or broken, leading FAA to propose giving operators three years to replace them. Boeing has received reports ...

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 over-wing emergency slide fell from a Thomas Cook Group plane over Belgium shortly after the jet had departed London’s Gatwick airport bound for Egypt, according to the U.K. leisure carrier. The ...