- Author
- Hill, R. G. | Sarkos, C. P. | Marker, T. R.
- Title
- Development and Evaluation of an Onboard Aircraft Cabin Water Spray System for Postcrash Fire Protection.
- Coporate
- Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City Airport, NJ
- Book or Conf
- Product Safety Corporation. International Conference on Fire Safety, 17th. Volume 17. January 13-17, 1992, Millbrae, CA, Product Safety Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, 171-179 pp, 1992 <b>AND</b> Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE). Aerospace Technology Conference and Exposition. SAE Paper 912224. September 23-26, 1991, Long Beach, CA, SAE, Warrendale, PA, ['1991', '1992']
- Keywords
- fire safety | aircraft compartments | water sprays | postcrash fires | fire protection | evaluation | large scale fire tests | survival | effectiveness | wind effects | burnthrough (failure)
- Identifiers
- disbenefit study; benefit analysis study
- Abstract
- This paper outlines a program that could ultimately lead to design standards for an onboard aircraft cabin water spray system to suppress postcrash fires. A brief summary of the program and the status of current activities is presented. The latter includes full-scale effectiveness tests, a study of possible problems arising from the inadvertent (or intentional) discharge of the system, and computation of the potential benefits (lives saved) from the mandatory requirement of such a system. The bulk of the paper describes the results of full-scale scenarios to measure the increased survival rate when using a water spray system. It is shown that a water spray system may provide passengers 2 to 3 minutes of additional time to escape under certain postcrash fire scenarios.