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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...