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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Korean Air said on Monday it will impose a zero-tolerance policy toward passengers who tamper with aircraft emergency exits, warning that it will pursue criminal charges and deny future boarding to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 onboard a Cathay Pacific flight from Boston to Hong Kong has been taken into custody after attempting to open the ...

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” ...