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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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 ...

An unruly JetBlue passenger opened an overwing exit on a flight attempting to leave Boston on Monday, causing the aircraft to deploy its emergency slide. The incident, which took place at Boston Logan ...

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 ...

A passenger is under police investigation after touching an emergency exit handle on a commercial aircraft while it sat on ...

As personal space on planes continues to shrink, all eyes are falling on the last place where you can still enjoy a small amount of dignity: the emergency exit row. The rows leading to the "overwing" ...

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 ...

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 ...