- Author
- McFadden, E. B. | Reynolds, H. I. | Funkhouser, G. E.
- Title
- Protective Passenger Smoke Hood.
- Coporate
- Civil Aeromedical Institute, Oklahoma City, OK G.T. Schjeldahl Co.
- Report
- AM 67-4, April 1967, 9 p.
- Keywords
- protective clothing | respiration | aircraft fires | jet transport | aircraft accidents | smoke inhalation
- Identifiers
- polyimide smoke hood
- Abstract
- Investigation of recent jet transport aircraft accidents has indicated that inhalation of smoke is a significant factor in the incapacitation of passengers and their subsequent failure to evacuate the aircraft prior to its consumption by fire. Unfortunately, the immobilization and collapse of even one strategically-located passenger or crew member can have a very deleterious effect upon passenger evacuation flow. A recent study of United States air carrier accidents involving fire concludes that fire deaths and injuries can be reduced by aircraft crashworthiness design evacuation provisions and procedures, plus airport firefighting and rescue provisions.