Recommendations for Injury Prevention in Transport Aviation Accidents

Abstract

In 1996, a national objective was established to reduce the rate of fatal accidents in aviation. To assist in determining the best methods for improving aircraft crash survivability, a combined approach was used involving database research and the examination of case studies of transport aviation accidents. The results of the study include recommendations for maintaining occupiable space, enhancing occupant restraint, managing energy transferred to the occupant, improving egress, and increasing post-crash survival.

A Request for Regulatory Revision

“…Since then, a number of scientific studies and crash investigations, as well as postmortem analyses, have been conducted, including those by Chandler (1988); White, Rowles, Mumford, and Firth (1990); Dulcavsky, Geller, and Iorio (1993); White, Firth, Rowles, and N.L.D.B. Study Group (1993); Brownson, Wallace, and Anton (1998); Grierson and Jones (2001); and Cullen (2004). These reports have shown there are two primary reasons for bracing.…”

Survivability of occupants in commercial passenger aircraft accidents

“…• Ppost-crash factors, eliminating adverse post-crash conditions to provide adequate egress routes for occupants (Grierson and Jones, 2001;Shanahan, 2005;Chang and Yang, 2010).…”

“…Survivability directly correlates with structural damage to the aircraft. When damage to the aircraft frame is limited, or the aircraft remains mostly intact, the survivability is higher, and the severity of the injuries is lower (Grierson and Jones, 2001).…”