Warming Up For Evacuation Office of Aerospace Medicine NEWS Volunteers scramble out as safety monitors stand by to assist.
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The Civil Aerospace Medical Institute's Protection and Survival Laboratory is conducting the largest aircraft evacuation study ever to be implemented. The study is comparing a variety of aircraft cabin interior arrangements at the Type-III overwing exit, as well as various procedures used to effect an evacuation. More than 2,500 people will be involved in the study. The results of the study will be used to help answer evacuation-related questions posed in the recent National Transportation Safety Board's safety study. A further aim is to apply the findings to joint rulemaking efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration and the European Joint Aviation Authority.