Airbags to Enhance Passenger Safety on Airbus 340

Amsafe (Stand A900A) is promoting an Advanced Aviation Inflatable Restraint system it says can improve passenger crash survivability via the use of individual airbags. The Phoenix-based company says AAIR is the only product that specifically meets the head injury criteria for FAR/JAR 25.562 safety regulation, the so called "16G Rule."

The Amsafe AAIR is housed inside a thin, lightweight lap belt that resembles a normal belt in size and shape, but contains an airbag that rapidly inflates when triggered by a patented array of G-sensors. The sensor system is located under the seat and is self contained, modular and independent of aircraft power. AAIR is designed to retrofit to any commercial airliner seat in service today. Amsafe says it's being installed on Airbus A340 aircraft, to be followed by the A319, 320 and 321.