US: FAA to test whether packed planes affect evacuation time
The size of your seat and how much legroom you'll get on a future flight could be decided by 720 Oklahomans taking part in a first-of-its-kind test to determine if jam-packed planes slow emergency evacuations. Frequent flyers on US airlines are all too aware that cramped economy cabins are detrimental to comfort. But federal officials who write airline safety rules have never tested whether smaller seats or tightly packed rows have any effect on evacuation time. Beginning next month, FAA researchers will recruit people from churches, universities and online to come up with a test group similar to the overall US population. Sixty at a time, they will be seated in a simulator laid out like a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320, planes commonly used on domestic flights. Flight attendants will tell them to get out of the simulator. <br/>
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US: FAA to test whether packed planes affect evacuation time
The size of your seat and how much legroom you'll get on a future flight could be decided by 720 Oklahomans taking part in a first-of-its-kind test to determine if jam-packed planes slow emergency evacuations. Frequent flyers on US airlines are all too aware that cramped economy cabins are detrimental to comfort. But federal officials who write airline safety rules have never tested whether smaller seats or tightly packed rows have any effect on evacuation time. Beginning next month, FAA researchers will recruit people from churches, universities and online to come up with a test group similar to the overall US population. Sixty at a time, they will be seated in a simulator laid out like a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320, planes commonly used on domestic flights. Flight attendants will tell them to get out of the simulator. <br/>
