The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed another directive to tackle uncommanded slide deployments on Boeing ...

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 ...

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 ...