REDUCING FIRE HAZARDS IN COMMERCIAL TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT

A review is given of the status of fire prevention design practices for current commercial transport aircraft and of the research and development activities aimed at providing additional fire prevention design criteria. Some actual fire incidents are described as illustrative examples.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • AGARD Conf Proceeding, Aircraft Operating Experience and Its Impact on Safety and Survivability at the Flight Mech Panel Symposium, Sandefjord, Norway, 31 May-3 June 1976.
• Corporate Authors:

  Advisory Group Aerospace Research and Development

  7 Rue Ancelle
  92 Neuilly-sur-Seine,   France 
• Authors:
  • SCHAUFELE, R D
• Publication Date: 1977-1

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 16 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft; Civil aviation; Design; Development; Fire causes; Fire prevention; Fires; Prevention; Protection; Research; Transport aircraft
• Uncontrolled Terms: Design criteria; Research and development
• Old TRIS Terms: Aircraft fires
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00172770
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 212, Paper 17 Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 12 1978 12:00AM