View of an emergency exit in a plane. Good news—it would be physically impossible to open the door mid-flight, but there are serious consequences for people who try. The most important thing in the ...

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Air travel safety protocols often raise questions—like why tray tables must be locked, window shades open, and seats upright during takeoff and landing. While such precautions are routine, one ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s emergency exits are a gauntlet of dangers, with crumbling walls, exposed wiring — and even broken handrails on paths 30 feet above ground, a scathing new ...

The incident in Manchester, U.K. resulted in seven-hour delays A passenger caused major delays after mistaking an airplane’s emergency exit door for a bathroom on Friday. While the plane was still ...

A night of celebration turned into a nightmare at La Constellation. Switzerland — a country known for order and safety — now ...

A 25-year-old man who had just arrived in Sichuan, China, was fined more than $11,000 for opening the plane’s emergency door because the air felt “stuffy.” The man, identified only as Chen, had just ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Buildings are equipped with emergency exits so that in the event of an emergency -- whether it be a fire or something else -- people have multiple ways of exiting a building and ...

A man on a Southwest Airlines flight opened an emergency exit door and climbed onto the plane’s wing Sunday while the aircraft was at a gate at New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport, ...

Imagine hearing the fire alarm in your dorm or apartment. Where do you go? Do you know where the fire exits are? You only have a few seconds, so you better think on your feet. I’m sure we all remember ...

The emergency exit doors to the Swiss Ski resort bar engulfed by flames in the fatal New Year’s Eve fire were always shut, a ...