The objective of this analysis was to assess the potential benefits, in terms of reduction of fatalities and injuries, resulting from improvements in fuselage burnthrough resistance to ground pool fires. The process employed for assessing benefit is considered to give reasonably accurate and consistent results within the limitations imposed by the available data. The methodology gives a reasonable assessment of the tolerance on the predicted levels. Fire hardening of fuselages will provide benefits in terms of enhanced occupant survival and may be found to be cost beneficial if low-cost solutions can be found. The maximum number of lives saved per year in worldwide transport aircraft accidents, over the period covered by the data, was assessed to be 12.5 for the aircraft in its actual configuration and 10.5 for the aircraft configured to later airworthiness requirements.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Fuselage Burnthrough Protection for Increased Postcrash Occupant Survivability: Safety Benefit Analysis Based on Past Accidents


    Contributors:
    R. Cherry (author) / K. Warren (author)

    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    169 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Full Scale Fuselage Burnthrough Tests

    Sarkos, G. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1991


    Aircraft fuselage having burnthrough resistant components

    MUELLER RAINER / HUEBNER ROBERT / BUSCH HEINZ-PETER et al. | European Patent Office | 2018

    Free access

    Burnthrough Resistance of Fuselage and Cabin Structures

    Povey, N. J. / Dodd, D. C. / Marker, T. R. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997


    BURNTHROUGH PROTECTION SYSTEM

    FERNANDO JOSEPH A / GARVEY CHAD E / RIOUX ROBERT et al. | European Patent Office | 2017

    Free access

    BURNTHROUGH PROTECTION SYSTEM

    FERNANDO JOSEPH A / GARVEY CHAD E / RIOUX ROBERT et al. | European Patent Office | 2017

    Free access