Aviation Safety: Advancements Being Pursued to Improve Airliner Cabin Occupant Safety and Health

United States. General Accounting Office.

United States. General Accounting Office.

关键词: Government accountability -- United States.;    transportation;    justice and law enforcement;    aviation safety;    letter report;   

RP-ID  :  GAO-04-33
RP-ID  :  240101

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Airline travel is one of the safest modes of public transportation in the United States. Furthermore, there are survivors in the majority of airliner crashes, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Additionally, more passengers might have survived if they had been better protected from the impact of the crash, smoke, or fire or better able to evacuate the airliner. As requested, GAO addressed (1) the regulatory actions that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has taken and the technological and operational improvements, called advancements, that are available or are being developed to address common safety and health issues in large commercial airliner cabins and (2) the barriers, if any, that the United States faces in implementing such advancements."