Emergency Equipment

Emergency Equipment

1. Life Jackets

   • One for every passenger and crew member
   • Location must be clearly identified
   • Equipped with small CO2 bottle for inflation
   • Secondary inflation tube for increased buoyancy
   • Whistle
   • Light powered by a battery
   • Flotation cots for very young children
   • Lifed item
     • Must be removed for servicing at certain intervals
     • Expiry date
     • If damaged, contaminated or out of date, must be removed

2. Smoke Equipment

   • Portable oxygen sets
     • Equipped with mask
     • Sometimes full hood
     • Little maintenance other than inspection and checking date

3. Crash Axes

   • Aircraft over nine seats
   • Secured in a stowage on the flight deck
   • More than two hundred seats, second one located in the galley

4. First Aid Kits

   • EU OPS 1 dictates every aircraft used for passenger aircraft must have one or more first aid kits
   • 0 to 99 passengers
     • 1
   • 100 to 199 passengers
     • 2
   • 200 to 299
     • 3
   • 300+
     • 4
   • Must be sealed and have expiry date
   • Maintenance = check seal and expiry date

5. Megaphones

   • Every aircraft with sixty one or more seats must have a megaphone
   • More than one hundred seats must have two
   • Located in overhead locker dedicated to stowage
   • Routine maintenance = test megaphone and replace batteries

6. Emergency Escape Equipment

   • Escape Slides
     • At each normal doorway and at emergency escape hatch
     • Slide is mounted to the door in ordinary operation, and as door opened or closed, slide moves with it
     • In flight, slide put into flight position and attached to door or cabin floor
     • When initiated, compressed gas bottle will discharge and inflate
     • In disarmed position, slide is not attached to door frame, so if door opened slide won't deploy
     • When armed, slide engaged with floor by girt bar mechanism
       • When opened from the inside, slide will deploy automatically
       • Opened from the outside, slide will disarm
   • Crew Escape Facilities
     • Basic system consists of rope attached to structure in a way that it can be dropped out the window
       • Knots tied in it to assist descent control
     • More sophisticated system is a wire attached to an inertia reel assembly
     • As wire accelerates, inertia reel slows the descent so crew should reach the ground at a reasonable speed