Evacuation slide
An evacuation slide is an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft quickly. An escape slide is required on all passenger-carrying aircraft if the door is too high for passengers to step down from the aircraft uninjured. Federal Aviation Administration requires slides on doors where the floor is 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above the ground.
Some slides are designed to act also as life rafts if the plane lands in the water.
Evacuation Slide Media
Evacuation slide used in an emergency drill
Deflated evacuation slide on an Airbus A320 following an inadvertent deployment, 2007
- Notrutsche in verpacktem Zustand * A packed evacuation slide
Evacuation slide in the box at the bottom of the door
An inflated slide used for cabin certifications tests for the SSJ100
Emergency slides after the crash of British Airways Flight 38
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