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Summary Report on the National Transportation Safety Board's General Aviation Crashworthiness Project Findings
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The National Transportation Safety Board conducted a general aviation crashworthiness study from 1981 to 1985. Three reports were published that 1) validated crashworthiness investigative techniques; 2) defined the impact severity and potential injury prevention for survivable accidents; and 3) defined acceleration loads and velocity changes of survivable accidents. The Safety Board was also able to define the extent that post-crash fires affect survivability. This paper contains extensive excerpts from the three Safety Board reports and is intended as an overview of the Safety Board's effort. The original reports contain more detailed discussions of the points raised here.
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Clark, J., "Summary Report on the National Transportation Safety Board's General Aviation Crashworthiness Project Findings," SAE Technical Paper 871006, 1987, https://doi.org/10.4271/871006.Also In
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- “General Aviation Crashworthiness Project, Phase One,” National Transportation Safety Board Washington, D.C. 20594 June 27 1983
- “General Aviation Crashworthiness Project: Phase Two-Impact Severity and Potential Injury Prevention in General Aviation Accidents,” National Transportation Safety Board Washington, D.C. 20594 March 15 1985
- “General Aviation Crashworthiness Project, Phase Three--Acceleration Loads and Velocity Changes of Survivable General Aviation Accidents,” National Transportation Safety Board Washington, D.C. 20594 September 4 1985
- NASA Technical Paper 2083 “Correlation and Assessment of Structural Airplane Crash Data with Flight Parameters at Impact,” 1982
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