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How fast can an Airbus A380 superjumbo jet be evacuated?
The website Quartz has video of an Airbus A380 being evacuated during an on-ground emergency test, and it shows the massive passenger jet unloading a reported 853 passengers. (www.bizjournals.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Bueautiful link, I have to see this movie. It's seem to be close the The Wall "teatcher leave the kids alone".
Nevertheless at the end of this "work" evrybody clap... i'm not sure that it was the Mood of Fritz Lang and Pink Floyd band during there movie!
Cheers
Nevertheless at the end of this "work" evrybody clap... i'm not sure that it was the Mood of Fritz Lang and Pink Floyd band during there movie!
Cheers
In the US, per 14 CFR 25.803 and Appendix J, para (h): A representative passenger load of persons in normal health must be used as follows: (1) 40% female; (2) 35% over 50 years of age; (3) 15% female over 50; (4) Three life-size dolls … to simulate live infants 2 years old or younger; and (5) No Crewmembers, mechanics, and training personnel… (essentially no professionals). Evacuation must be demonstrated in less than 90 seconds from a seated, belted in position in the dark with only ½ of the available exits, with simulated carry-on bags blocking aisles, but without rehearsals. Still, everyone involved is aware of the task, not grabbing a PC or purse, and likely not wearing flip-flops or high-heel shoes. Injuries don’t count against the manufacturer – “any landing you can … crawl away from”?
(for the real nerds who want to see all the requiremtns, see http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=1c6ff38661528373eb7fd3d586e84bc0&node=14:1.0.1.3.11&rgn=div5#14:1.0.1.3.11.4.178.57) (hope the link works)
(for the real nerds who want to see all the requiremtns, see http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=1c6ff38661528373eb7fd3d586e84bc0&node=14:1.0.1.3.11&rgn=div5#14:1.0.1.3.11.4.178.57) (hope the link works)
Hello Gentlemen,
This drill occured in regard of the regulation to certify a plane. According that: 1/2 doors where closed (to simulate a fire in a side of the plane), In a complete darkness (just evacuation light, the one whish is presented by all the steward before the flight). Population was fix beetween young and more old
Certification inspector was part of the evacuate personn
Even if this exercice was made in an optimize situation: a team "stunter and sportive men) was set at the bottom of the slide to help the "slider to evacuate the "drop zone". Wall of Cardbox was fix each side of the slide to securize if someone miss the slide
As far as I known, none passager's Jumbo go through the same exercice.
Finally, 873 persons where evacuate in 75s. What is allowing A380 to raise is capacity up to >1'040 persons on board.
Source: this video is an extract from A380: l'aventure des essais en vol" certainly available in english language... but My level of english isn't good enough to look >2h of technical documentary inb english (but enough for: Be kind, rewind ;-)) )
I think remind that 1 leg was broke during the drill (Reminder from Air et Cosmos magasine)
Finally US as a part of this success: Slide are make by Goodrich (now United Technology Corporation)
Complete video of A380 evacuation: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYQJDT0EYm5Ij03KVpBQ_9Aj4TFITBTul (in French, sorry, I could translate some part if you ask)
Thank for the video about Pan Am 747 evacuation
Bon vent les amis,
Bye
This drill occured in regard of the regulation to certify a plane. According that: 1/2 doors where closed (to simulate a fire in a side of the plane), In a complete darkness (just evacuation light, the one whish is presented by all the steward before the flight). Population was fix beetween young and more old
Certification inspector was part of the evacuate personn
Even if this exercice was made in an optimize situation: a team "stunter and sportive men) was set at the bottom of the slide to help the "slider to evacuate the "drop zone". Wall of Cardbox was fix each side of the slide to securize if someone miss the slide
As far as I known, none passager's Jumbo go through the same exercice.
Finally, 873 persons where evacuate in 75s. What is allowing A380 to raise is capacity up to >1'040 persons on board.
Source: this video is an extract from A380: l'aventure des essais en vol" certainly available in english language... but My level of english isn't good enough to look >2h of technical documentary inb english (but enough for: Be kind, rewind ;-)) )
I think remind that 1 leg was broke during the drill (Reminder from Air et Cosmos magasine)
Finally US as a part of this success: Slide are make by Goodrich (now United Technology Corporation)
Complete video of A380 evacuation: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYQJDT0EYm5Ij03KVpBQ_9Aj4TFITBTul (in French, sorry, I could translate some part if you ask)
Thank for the video about Pan Am 747 evacuation
Bon vent les amis,
Bye
Here is a grainy video of a Pan Am 747 evacuation from an incident at SFO in the 70s.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_wXfSwRzM
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_wXfSwRzM
There was a whole segment on this on a TV show about the A380, I think it was on PBS or the Discovery Channel. It was right before it started passenger service. It was at Goodrich in the Phoenix area. They had to have a certain diversity of people, that is, elderly, children, and maybe overweight. My memory is getting hazy, but I thought it was interesting the slides were designed in the USA.
Of course in a real emergency this time cannot be made.
But this requirement is one of many improvement brought to Aviation for safety issues.
We may not have had so many people alive in Asiana crash , if safety standards had not been raised in everything, from procedures to resistance to impact,to fire and so on.....
This makes it safer to fly.