Evaluation of Wide-Body Transport Category Airplane Evacuation Slide Training Technique and Injuries

This project is an archival review of evacuation research and training events to attempt to differentiate and correlate slide use techniques with observed injuries. The goal is to identify safe and unsafe slide techniques for making recommendations to improve the safety of training and research utilizing aircraft evacuation slides.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $N/A
• Contract Numbers:

  N/A

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Managing Organizations:

  Civil Aerospace Medical Institute-Federal Aviation Administration

  P.O. Box 25082
  Oklahoma City, OK  United States  73125
• Performing Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration Aerospace Medical Research and Safety Assurance Division

  Bldg. 13 Room 302
  6500 S. MacArthur Blvd
  Oklahoma City, OK  United States  73169
• Principal Investigators:

  Weed, David

• Start Date: 20220415
• Expected Completion Date: 20231018
• Actual Completion Date: 20231103
• USDOT Program: Aeromedical Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aviation safety; Evacuation; Passenger aircraft; Safety equipment
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01844473
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
• Contract Numbers: N/A
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: May 2 2022 8:47AM