The Influence of Adjacent Seating Configurations on Egress through a Type III Emergency Exit

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• Creators:
  Rasmussen, Paul G. ; Chittum, Charles B.
• Corporate Creators:
  Civil Aeromedical Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Office of Aviation Medicine
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Evacuation
  • Emergency exits
  • Seats
  • Aviation safety
  • Field tests
  • Human subject testing
  • Aeronautics¿Safety measures
  • Airplanes--Evacuation--Human Factors
  • Airplanes--Seats
  • Field experiments
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/FAA/AM-89/14
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• Abstract:
  When the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) established a mandatory action intended to improve access to, and opening of, Type III emergency exits, the Northwest Mountain Region identified a need for a study to evaluate the proposed changes against existing minimum requirements of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR). ; The results indicate that the proposed CAA configuration and the alternative configuration were both more effective than the minimum configuration required by the FARs as measured by evacuation flow rate. There were no significant differences in the exit preparation time among the four seating arrangements.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21329/dot_21329_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.15 MB]
• Collection(s):
  FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:776bc6a97d2d6342763e6a31a7479401b50a566aefa6ae51c8d8bb8b483b7f960a90879931adc96d355dcc042038baa9144fa1087bd1801478baa0eb32c03772