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RCED-93-165R 1 (1993-06-08)

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GAO          United States
             General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             Resources, Community, and
             Economic Development Division
             B-253319


             June 8, 1993                                    I  l:!ljJl
             The Honorable James L. Oberstar                    149317
             Chairman
             The Honorable William F. Clinger, Jr.
             Ranking Minority Member
             Subcommittee on Aviation
             Committee on Public Works and Transportation
             House of Representatives

             The Honorable John D. Dingell
             House of Representatives

             The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings
             Chairman, Committee on Commerce, Science,
               and Transportation
             United States Senate

             The Honorable Wendell H. Ford
             Chairman, Subcommittee on Aviation
             Committee on Commerce, Scienci,
               and Transportation
             United States Senate

             In response to your requests and subsequent agreements with
             your offices, this correspondence provides information on
             the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) emergency
             evacuation requirements for transport aircraft.
             Specifically, the correspondence summarizes

                  FAA's Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee's (ARAC)
                  Emergency Evacuation Subcommittee's efforts to develop
                  regulatory standards for enhancing passengers' ability
                  to quickly and safely evacuate an aircraft in an
                  emergency and

                  the impact on aircraft design if FAA reduced the 90-
                  second emergency evacuation standard to 60 seconds.

             Although we were also asked to provide information on the
             time to evacuate different aircraft types following an
             accident, we were unable to do so because reliable
             information was unavailable.



                                      GAOIRCED-93-165R, FAA Evacuation Standards

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