Re:Crashing, Burning Planes Don’t Stop Passengers from Grabb...
by FabHK on Friday August 05, 2016 @05:48AM
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It is a certification requirement for airliners that they can be evacuated in 90 seconds, with half the emergency exits closed/inoperational (see [1], [2]).
This is tested with volunteers before certification, see e.g. [3] for a video of the certification test for the Airbus A380.
The details [4] are quite interesting: a third of "pax" must be over 50, three life-size infant dolls must be carried along, etc.
Given those certification requirements, a slow passenger is very much a problem.
This is tested with volunteers before certification, see e.g. [3] for a video of the certification test for the Airbus A380. The details [4] are quite interesting: a third of "pax" must be over 50, three life-size infant dolls must be carried along, etc.
Given those certification requirements, a slow passenger is very much a problem.
[1] http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?contentKe... [2] http://adg.stanford.edu/aa241/fuselayout/far801.html [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIaovi1JWyY [4] http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=4fcf34b24a7a7963642...