Emergency escape slides play a massive role in expediting airplane evacuations and have saved many lives. Have you ever wondered how they actually work?

Fare evaders boldly enter the West 23rd St Station in the subway in New York via the emergency exit gate, evading paying the fare, on Wednesday July 12, 2023. Levine-Roberts/Sipa USA .

Cost to taxpayers: $5.50, because I also convinced someone on the other side of that emergency-exit gate to push it open for me. For free. On Tuesday, the MTA’s CEO, ...

An Alaska Airlines flight from Milwaukee to Seattle was too much for one passenger who decided to open the emergency exit and climbed out to the wing of the airplane after arriving at the gate.

A Southwest Airlines passenger was hospitalized after opening the emergency exit door of the airplane and climbing onto the wing. The incident occurred around 7:41 p.m. CT at Louis Armstrong New ...

By Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...

A man on a Southwest Airlines flight opened an emergency exit door and climbed onto the plane’s wing while the aircraft was at a gate at a New Orleans airport, authorities said.

(CNN) — 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 ...