Cabin Safety

Providing a detailed examination of the issues that affect the long term health of aircrew, cabin crew and passengers, Air Travel and Health offers guidance to engineers designing aircraft in the difficult field of legislation and product liability. Examining the facts, anecdotes and myths associated with health and travel, Seabridge and Morgan draw balanced conclusions on which the aircraft operations and design communities can act to provide cost-effective solutions. The authors present a useful reference for aircrew, regulatory authorities, engineers and managers within the aerospace industry, and medical and human factor specialists, as well as an informative resource for undergraduate and graduate students.

The Aviation Contaminated Air Reference Manual is the first ever fully referenced 800+ page summary of the complete aircraft contaminated air issue in which crews and passengers have been exposed to oil and hydraulic fumes in aircraft cabins. The reference manual, which is the result of nearly ten years of research, is aimed at policy makers, doctors, scientists, air accident investigators, engineers, crews, passengers, airline and union representatives, politicians and media involved or interested in any aspect of the contaminated air debate on commercial and military aircraft.

Contains papers presented at an October 1999 symposium held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on cabin air quality measurements, chemicals and toxicity, standards, modeling and control of cabin air quality, cabin air quality and emerging issues, and relationships between cabin environment factors and comfo

Each year Americans take more than 300 million plane trips staffed by a total of some 70,000 flight attendants. The health and safety of these individuals are the focus of this volume from the Committee on Airliner Cabin Air Quality.

Proceedings of the BALPA Air Safety and Cabin Air Quality International Aero Industry Conference. Held at Imperial College, London, 20-21 April 2005.

Water spray systems have been proposed as a means of reducing the effects of a fire occurring in an aircraft cabin. The research described in this report was commissioned by the Civil Aviation Authority to investigate the human factors aspects of such systems and their potential effects upon evacutation rates and other issues such as visibility and audibility within the cabin.

This is one of two volumes that report on the study of the emergency evacuation of transport airplanes that was sponsored by the Federal Aviation liinistration (FA -,). The study included the Septemter 1985 Public Technical Conference and the public meetings of the three technical working groups formed durincg the conference as part of a task, force effort. The working groups are: Design and Certification, Training and Oerations, and Maintenance and Reliability. The task force program focused on the reassessnent of existing Federal Aviation Regulations pertaining to emergency evacuation. Topics considered in the study include: evacuation demonstrations; emergency exits; evacuation slide certification, inspection, and maintenance; emergency equipment; crewmnber training and duties; passenger safety information; air carrier operations; and others. Volume I, Sunmary Report, sumrizes the issues considered during the study and the outcome of those issues. Volume II, Supporting Documentation, contains meeting reports, formal presentation papers, and other documents on which the summary report is based.

This is one of two volumes that report on the study of the emergency evacuation of transport airplanes that was sponsored by the Federal Aviation liinistration (FA -,). The study included the Septemter 1985 Public Technical Conference and the public meetings of the three technical working groups formed durincg the conference as part of a task, force effort. The working groups are: Design and Certification, Training and Oerations, and Maintenance and Reliability. The task force program focused on the reassessnent of existing Federal Aviation Regulations pertaining to emergency evacuation. Topics considered in the study include: evacuation demonstrations; emergency exits; evacuation slide certification, inspection, and maintenance; emergency equipment; crewmnber training and duties; passenger safety information; air carrier operations; and others. Volume I, Sunmary Report, sumrizes the issues considered during the study and the outcome of those issues. Volume II, Supporting Documentation, contains meeting reports, formal presentation papers, and other documents on which the summary report is based.

What should every airline and manufacturer know about comfort? What can we learn from studies in the scientific literature? What do most passengers know about comfort and how can we translate that into interior design? Where can I find the latest knowledge and research useful for designing aircraft seats? Although the answers to these questions are available, they have often been hard to find. Until now. Based on studies conducted by the author and the latest knowledge on comfort, Aircraft Interior Comfort and Design links scientific research on customer likes and dislikes with technical know-how of aircraft interior design. It contains theoretical information on comfort gathered directly from the voice of the passenger, specific tips and photographs on passenger likes and dislikes, and an overview of the latest scientific demands for passenger seats. Presenting the results of current research and development in the aircraft interior industry, this book provides insight that, when applied to the daily work of managing the passenger experience, can lead to further improvements. The author makes the case for using improved comfort as a selling tool and identifies new opportunities for comfort improvement in the different phases of the passenger experience. He demonstrates how by optimizing the passengers' senses at each phase, you can design comfort back into flying.

In 1986 the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) convened a meeting with representatives of the other three authorities to have an interest in smoke hoods for passengers - FAA, DGAC (France) and Transport Canada. The four authorities agreed on a collaborative work programme, a part of which included a net safety benefit study for smoke hoods, i.e. an assesment of the safety benefit, and any likely offset due perhaps to delays in evacuation induced by its use. It is that study which is reported in this paper.

Laboratory- and full-scale fire tests were conducted on a number of different types of aircraft seat cushion materials to determine the applicability of the current weight loss criteria specified in Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 25.853(c) Appendix F Part II (herein referred to as Appendix F Part II) to new, very lightweight cushion designs. Cushion samples were initially tested in accordance with the current standard, and if they exceeded the 10% weight loss criteria, they were evaluated under full-scale fire test conditions. The full-scale tests were conducted with a modified narrow-body fuselage test article exposed to an adjacent fuel pan fire to simulate a severe but survivable postimpact cabin fire. Four triple-seat frames used to mount the cushion samples were installed inside the test article. Aircraft-grade honeycomb sidewall, ceiling panels, and carpet were also installed in the vicinity of the seat frames to simulate a realistic aircraft cabin.