This is how aircraft are evacuated during emergencies (video)

ArabiaWeather - Airlines equip their planes with many safety and emergency equipment that can be used in the event of any accident. In some cases, the plane must be quickly evacuated from its passengers through an inflatable evacuation slide.

Although the evacuation slide is rarely used, all commercial aircraft are equipped with it in anticipation of the need for a quick and safe evacuation of passengers from the aircraft.

British Airways staff provided a glimpse of how the evacuation slide works in a video trial on a Boeing 700-200 to check safety procedures.

The aircraft is equipped with eight evacuation glides to ensure maximum safety and efficiency, and aircraft of this type are checked almost daily by trained engineers to ensure they are operating properly.

And the engineers appeared in the video as they opened the door of the plane before the inflatable slide, which reaches a length of 14 meters, opens in only 6 seconds.

Engineer Peter Dipper of British Airways explains in the video clip that activating the slide requires programming the aircraft door to automatic mode, and pulling the door handle 180 degrees, according to what was reported in the British newspaper Mirror.