History and Development of Airline Cabin Safety

"History and Development of Airline Cabin Safety offers an understanding of how the current standards of cabin safety came into effect and provides a framework for future improvements. It covers six key areas in cabin safety: impact protection, fire protection, egress potential, life support equipment, information and instructions, and cabin professionals. Exploring the high proportion of reactive cabin safety rulemaking (i.e. accident- triggered) vs. the limited use of proactive and predictive methods, the book examines cabin design features and operational procedures intended to enhance the survival of airline occupants. It encompasses a range of accidents or incidents that can occur at any point during taxying, take-off, landing, and in-flight. The book responds to the questions of how effective cabin safety measures have been over time and when and why certain cabin safety features were introduced. The book will interest flight and cabin crew members, cabin safety professionals, and air transport safety and investigation professionals"--