Airframe and Cabin Safety Equipment Systems

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CABIN HARNESS / SEAT BELTS
There are additional cabin safety equipment that are installed for the safety of both passengers and crew members. Cabin harness is one of these safety device installed on the seats as commonly called as Seat belt.
Most common term used for the cockpit crew seats and cabin crew seats are safety harness. This harness provides positive locking on the seat whoever wears the same in case of sudden stop or impact like in Rejected Takeoff.
Operation of the Seatbelt
(1) The buckles are inserted to each other
(2) These are pulled to tighten up comfortably depending on the waist line
(3) Lift buckle to disengage

Fig. 9 Escape Slides

AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY ESCAPE SLIDES
In case of cabin emergency, the aircraft is provided with emergency escape slides on each passenger door. Escape slides are used to help people evacuate the aircraft as quick as possible. The installation of this emergency escape slide assembly are normally on the lower part of the passenger door.
If the arming lever on the door is selected to ARM position and the door on that side is Open, then, the emergency slide will be deployed and then Inflation will follow to that side of the door automatically. In case of failure of inflation after deployment, then a manual inflation handle on the right side of the door normally in Red color must be pulled to activate manual inflation. Escape slides are being inflated automatically once the door is opened and the control handle is set to armed mode, which usually takes 4 seconds to be completely inflated.

THERAPEUTIC OXYGEN

The therapeutic oxygen is also provided as part of the first aid and safety device inside the cabin for emergency purposes. There are times or incident that a pass...

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...tations. The chemical oxygen generator is sufficient to supply oxygen at least for 15 minutes just in time that the aircraft can make a rapid descent.
The chemical oxygen generator is ignited by one of the lanyard pulled by any passenger when the oxygen masks are deployed. This will release the pin which will trigger the firing pin and the inside chemicals of iron plus sodium chlorate burn to produce the oxygen product.
It will be available at the outlet manifold of the chemical generator itself which are individually connected to each passenger masks. It will be a continuous flow of oxygen once it is generated so that the passenger must individually consume it by putting on the mask on their face as soon as possible if it happens during flight. The 15 minutes period will start after the oxygen is generated and ready for use.

Works Cited

Airbus Training Manual

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