The issue about flammability of textile materials employed in passenger cabins of commercial aircrafts is an important part of safety routines planning. Once an in-flight emergency initiated with fire or smoke aboard, time becomes critical and the entire crew must be involved in the solution. It is part of the crew functions, notably the attendants, the in-flight firefighting. This study compares the values of textile material of flight attendant working cloths and galley curtain fabric with regard to flammability and Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI). Values to the professional clothing material indicate that they are flammable and the curtains, self-extinguishing. Thus, despite of the occurrences of fire outbreaks in aircrafts are unexceptional, the use of other materials and technologies for uniforms, such as alternative textile fibers and flame retardant finishes should be considered as well as the establishment of performance limits regarding flame and fire exposing.
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Silva-Santos, M. C., Oliveira, M. S., Giacomin, A. M., Laktim, M. C., & Baruque-Ramos, J. (2017). Flammability on textile of flight crew professional clothing. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 254). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/254/5/052006
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