In July last year the FAA issued a minimum standard for fully certified fire containment covers (FCCs) in response to a number of fires in the cargo hold on board aircraft. AmSafe's product claims to exceed the brief in terms of meeting these regulatory requirements.
The system includes a fire cover, pallet net and patented deployment kit follows which has been tested and developed for ten years."It can mitigate the risk of fires in undeclared dangerous goods on pallets and is already being used by a number of airlines," AmSafe Bridport's Joe Ashton said. "With the continued increase of high tech electronic equipment containing lithium batteries being shipped by online traders unaware of the dangerous goods regulations, the risk of the next major cargo fire is high. On average, the pilot and crew have just 17 minutes from the initial notification of an 'on board' fire, to safely land the aircraft. With our FCC protecting your load we can now extend the protection time, up to six hours."
AmSafe Bridport claims to be the first and only manufacturer to produce cargo fire containment covers to new US Federal Aviation Authority standards.
