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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The escape chute at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Downtown Bryan could be coming down. Church leaders are looking into removing the slide in the back of the building or fencing it in after ...