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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Watch a ferry deploy and test its emergency evacuation slide during a routine safety inspection, ensuring passengers can quickly evacuate if needed.> ...

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 ...