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Civil Aircraft Oblique-Facing Seat Research Summary
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2024-09-01
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Abstract:Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations defines regulations that are intended to protect aircraft occupants in the event of a survivable civil aircraft crash. The standards for emergency landing conditions (25.562) were developed with a focus primarily on forward-facing seats, although the rules apply to all seats regardless of installation orientation. Requirements have been implemented for aft-facing seats and purely side-facing seats. When airlines began seeking approval to install seats whose orientation was between forward-facing and purely side-facing, it required the use of special conditions since the regulations that existed at the time were insufficient. Beginning in fiscal year 2011, the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) started a project to support the development of an FAA policy for the approval of oblique-facing seats. The project included testing and modeling at CAMI, two grants to the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), a grant to Southwest Research Institute, and a partnership with the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS). Throughout the length of this research project, the results were used in both FAA policy (PS-AIR-25-27) and an industry standard (SAE AS 6316). This report summarizes the research conducted and the main findings.
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