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Report No: DOT/FAA/AM-89/14
Title and Subtitle: The influence of adjacent seating configurations on egress through a type III emergency exit.
Report Date: December 1989
Authors: Rasmussen PG, Chittum CB.
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.
Key Words: emergencies, seats, exits, configurations, aeronautics, aircraft, flow rate, passengers, safety, evacuation, united states government, preparation, regulations, united kingdom, time.
No. of Pages: 22
Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
Report No: DOT/FAA/AM-89/14
Title and Subtitle: The influence of adjacent seating configurations on egress through a type III emergency exit.
Report Date: December 1989
Authors: Rasmussen PG, Chittum CB.
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.
Key Words: emergencies, seats, exits, configurations, aeronautics, aircraft, flow rate, passengers, safety, evacuation, united states government, preparation, regulations, united kingdom, time.
No. of Pages: 22
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