The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed another directive to tackle uncommanded slide deployments on Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) and 737 MAX aircraft, expanding the number of 737s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Footage shows passengers huddled on the wing of the commercial airliner, which was on the tarmac, as flames burn under the aircraft.

As the fire and smoke grow bigger, the emergency slide deploys at the rear of the aircraft. Passengers then scramble onto the wing via emergency doors and exit down the slides before hurrying away ...

“After landing and while taxiing to the gate an engine caught fire and passengers evacuated the aircraft using the slides,” the FAA continued. Photos also showed many evacuating on the plane’s wings.