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Message of flylinefrontier - Sent 01 Feb 18:17 |
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I was just on the web site looking at trip reports, someone mention that there is airbags on the new cabin on Cathay Pacifc, but I don't know if it is true because CX didn't put it on the web site. any info?
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Message of Cathay Pacific - Sent 01 Feb 19:01 |
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Message of captain bill - Sent 01 Feb 19:43 |
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Message of flylinefrontier - Sent 02 Feb 0:09 |
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Message of FLX - Sent 02 Feb 10:51 |
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Just my personal view: Airbags(Not motion sickness bag) are pretty irrelevant in airliner safety and effective only in very limited types of crash scenarios. Here is why.
1. In terms of automotive pax safety, it's common knowledge that airbag effectiveness reduce dramatically or even increase injury when it isn't working in combination with seatbelts. Is it possible to expect/enforce all pax hv their seatbelts fasten during the entire flight? I mean all pax must stay in their seats and can't use lavatories(Forget about moving around the cabin to stretch-out) during an ultra-longhaul 18hrs flight say SIN-EWR.....It's not like the plane can stop @ a gasoline station mid-way so pax can go for a biological break there.....
2. Comparing with pax in a car, Y-class pax on a plane sit much closer together side-by-side. When airbags are deployed, they can easily become obstacles to pax evacuation or rescuers trying to reach injured pax who are stuck in their seats. In a standard family car @ max pax capacity, nearly each pax has his/her own access/exit route for escape/rescuers to directly reach him/her fm outside the car even when the airbags may become an obstruction. Clearly, not every pax has his/her own exit route to reach outside directly on a plane. It should be easy to imagine how much more difficult the rescue scene will become on an A388 with a full pax load+airbags deployed everywhere inside the cabin.
I'm not saying airbags on airliners will be completely useless. 1 can argue that airbags may hv reduced injury further in the type of crash similar to the recent BA incident @ LHR for example. They're just ineffective in the majority of aviation accidents and add significant extra weight+complexity on an airliner.
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Message of flylinefrontier - Sent 10 Feb 20:44 |
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Message of Cathay Pacific - Sent 10 Feb 22:12 |
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Message of Spot planes - Sent 11 Feb 5:45 |
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