This report describes the methodology and results of a study undertaken for the Federal Aviation Administration into the characteristics of Fuselage Breaks and their effects on occupant survival in ground pool fire Accidents. For those accidents where the fuselage remains largely intact, a determination has been made of the nature of any Fuselage Ruptures resulting from the accident sequence. An assessment has also been made as to whether the probability of occurrence of ground pool fires is different for Aircraft with Wing Mounted Engines than for Aircraft without Wing Mounted Engines. The Cabin Safety Research Technical Group Aircraft Accident Database was used to select Survivable Accidents that occurred during the period 1967 to 2000, to Passenger carrying western world turbojet aircraft. Where appropriate to the study these accidents were analyzed in depth using Accident Reports and other data published by National Airworthiness and Investigating Authorities. The results of the study suggest that further data would be needed to determine any significant difference that might exist between the probabilities of occurrence of a ground pool fire accident for Aircraft with Wing Mounted Engines and for Aircraft without Wing Mounted Engines. All that can be determined, within the constraints of the size of the existing data set, is that any difference that might exist is unlikely to be large. Whilst it is likely that the majority of ground pool fire accidents in which the aircraft remains largely intact sustain Fuselage Ruptures, there are insufficient data available to establish the size of any such ruptures. For the Fuselage Break accidents studied the majority involved at least two breaks.


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    Title :

    Study of the Effects of Engine Configuration, Fuselage Breaks and Ruptures in Aircraft Accidents Involving Ground Pool Fires


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    143 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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