Passive smoking aboard passenger aircraft

Defibrillation aboard a commercial aircraft.

A 53-year-old executive (6 ft 3 in tall; 327 lb) with a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and coronary artery disease (coronary artery angioplasty in 1995) was traveling with his wife on vacation and ran to catch a connecting flight. The plane had closed the doors for takeoff when his wife noted that he was unresponsive. A flight attendant brought out the on-board automatic external d...

Facial nerve palsy aboard a commercial aircraft.

Facial baroparesis is facial nerve palsy secondary to barotrauma. This phenomenon is frequently seen in divers, but is under-reported there and has rarely been described in aviators or passengers aboard commercial aircraft. We describe a 24-yr-old healthy aviator who experienced an episode of facial nerve palsy during ascent while traveling as a passenger aboard a commercial flight. The probabl...

Air quality in passenger aircraft

2 Aircraft cabin ventilation In early commercial jet aircraft, passenger cabins were ventilated with 100% outside air. In more recent jet aircraft, approximately 50% of the ventilation air is outside air and the remaining 50% is filtered recirculated cabinair. This development has allowed for fuel savings as well as a supposed improvement in the relative humidity of cabin air. With typical pass...

Airflow Rate Requirements in Passenger Aircraft

An Analysis on the Detection of Biological Contaminants Aboard Aircraft

The spread of infectious disease via commercial airliner travel is a significant and realistic threat. To shed some light on the feasibility of detecting airborne pathogens, a sensor integration study has been conducted and computational investigations of contaminant transport in an aircraft cabin have been performed. Our study took into consideration sensor sensitivity as well as the time-to-a...