So each slide is uniquely developed for its location on an aircraft model. An escape slide sits inside a carbon fiber pressure cap covered by a casing of material similar to the aircraft interior ...

An emergency evacuation using the aircraft's escape slides can be a particularly traumatic experience, and as passengers, we all hope we will never have to do it. Thankfully, aircraft today are ...

One end of that rope is attached to the second hole of the yellow hook, and the other end of the rope leads to the escape slide. Some aircraft, like the Airbus A321, don't have hooks on the wings ...

Fears that Boeing 757 emergency slides may not deploy has led to the National Transportation Safety Board issuing safety ...

The passengers scrambled toward a front door and used an escape slide to flee from the danger. On the ground, some passengers helped others get up quickly. Many started running from the aircraft ...