| Title | Injuries to Seat Occupants of Light Airplanes |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 39528 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Colangelo, Eugene J.; Russell, Julie C. |
| Corporate Creator | Civil Aeromedical Institute |
| Corporate Contributor |
United States. Office of Aviation Medicine |
| Publisher | Civil Aerospace Medical Institute |
| Publication Date | 19890200 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | A series of 55 light-airplane accidents was examined in an effort to demonstrate the role of seats in the genesis of injury in seat occupants. Good engineering, design of airplane seats is an important related issue which is not treated in this study. Case selection attempted to include only those events in which significant but not extreme accelerations occurred. Ten of the fifty-five cases involved joint failure of seats and restraint systems. The majority of the observations were provided by aviation medical examiners who were typically very highly motivated practitioners of medicine with special interests and accomplishments in aviation. The other cases were reported by FAA accident investigators. No reliable marker of energy level was found in the data collected to control the finding that large accelerations tend to injure people and damage seats as well as most other structures regardless of the other interrelationships that might be involved. |
| Rosap ID | dot:21309 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21309 |
| TRT Terms | Air transportation crashes; Seats; Restraint systems; Injuries; Crash injuries; Crash injury research; Mechanical acceleration; Crash reports; Injury severity; Case studies; Autopsies |
| General Subjects | Aircraft accidents--Case studies; Airplanes--Seats; Safety harness (Aeronautics); Crash injuries--Research; Acceleration (Mechanics); Autopsy |
| Classification | NTL - AVIATION - Aviation Safety/Airworthiness; NTL - SAFETY AND SECURITY - Accidents; NTL - SAFETY AND SECURITY - Aviation Safety/Airworthiness |
| Geographical Coverage |
United States |
| Report Number | DOT/FAA/AM-89/3 |
| Resource type | Tech Report |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/39000/39500/39528/AM89-03.pdf |
| Format | |
| Database | NTL Digital Repository |