Originally Posted by drichard
Air bags in seatbelts? This is a good idea in theory, but in practice I wonder about twisted belts (firing the bag into the passenger), explosives in the seat (to generate CO2 for filling the bags), false triggers etc etc etc.
Virgin Atlantic have airbags in all Upper Class Suite seats... also, on the A340-600, they have them in economy in all seats where headstrike with a bulkhead or slide bustle is a possibility.
My understanding, and I am open to correction on this, is that any new aircraft type certified after the early nineties (1994 possibly?
) is required to have airbags on all seats where headstrike is a possibility (as it is in the Upper Class Suite on VS)