WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. senators are proposing legislation to require the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to rewrite aircraft evacuation standards to do a better job of taking real life ...

U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would require the FAA to publish new aircraft evacuation standards for Part 121 commercial aircraft, Reuters reported. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Tammy ...

IATA’s Walsh Condemns Aircraft Evacuation Posts On Social Media is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week Intelligence ...

Senator Tammy Duckworth is urging the FAA to investigate the realism and effectiveness of its 90-second aircraft evacuation standard. Her request follows several recent incidents where commercial ...

Two Senate Democrats want the Biden administration to take another look at whether airplane seats are too cramped. The pressure – in the form of legislation from Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Tammy ...

WASHINGTON — If an airplane has to be evacuated, the Federal Aviation Administration says all passengers must be capable of getting out within 90 seconds. But critics say the agency's testing ...

Passengers in a plane crash find themselves elbow-to-elbow with strangers in the dark encountering a life-or-death challenge: Squeeze between seats and debris to find an exit. Even before nearly 400 ...

UPDATE, 5:22 PM PT: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued an irate statement over the evacuation of the Capitol, which caused a momentary bit of alarm until Capitol Police determined that there was really ...

STR / Jiji Press/AFP via Getty Images If an airplane has to be evacuated, the Federal Aviation Administration says all passengers must be capable of getting out within 90 seconds. But critics say the ...

Earlier this evening, the Capitol Police in Washington, D.C. called for an evacuation of Congress due to an "aircraft that poses probable threat" which was flying circles around Capitol Building ...

Using a purpose-built, unique mock-up of what the inside of a passenger plane will look like in a decade’s time, the 2025 ...