Does the brace position change if your airplane seat belt has an air bag?

2/26/2012 8:33:32 AM

In short, no, the brace position does not change if your seat-belt has an airbag.

Seat-belt airbags are intended as an alternative protection in cases where the passenger is not in the brace position at time of a crash. The preferred option is still for the passenger to assume the brace position in the event that there is advanced warning of an impending potential incident.

From https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2008/05/20/E8-11297/special-conditions-amsafe-inc-various-transport-category-airplanes-inflatable-restraints :

Test data indicate that passengers in the brace position do not require supplemental protection, so that it will not be necessary to show that the AAIR will enhance the brace position. However, the inflatable seatbelt restraint must not introduce a hazard in that case by deploying into the seated, braced passenger.

I can’t seem to find it at the moment, however there is a good video available that shows a seat-belt airbag deploying for a passenger that is already in the brace position. By design, the majority of the force/inflation occurs sideways in this case so the airbag basically deploys beside the person so as not to cause additional injury by forcing them out of the brace position.

Credit:stackoverflow.com‘

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