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NTSB PRESS RELEASE
National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC 20594
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 27, 2010, SB-10-19
NTSB ISSUES SAFETY ALERT TO URGE PARENTS TO USE CHILD RESTRAINT
SYSTEMS DURING AIR TRAVEL
The National Transportation Safety Board today issued a Safety
Alert to advise parents of the dangers to young children on aircraft
when not restrained in an approved child restraint system or device. The
Safety Alert notes that preventable injuries and deaths have occurred in
children younger than 2 years who were unrestrained.
Specific child passenger safety issues on aircraft include the
likelihood that parents and caregivers may not be able to maintain a
secure hold on a lap-held child during turbulence and survivable
accidents. Additionally, unrestrained children have become separated
from their parents during survivable crashes and parents were unable to
locate them during the evacuation.
"As the summer travel season gets underway, the NTSB would like
to remind families traveling with children that child restraints are the
best way to keep youngsters safe - whether traveling by car or air,"
said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman. "While the NTSB would still
like to see a federal regulation requiring the use of child restraints
on aircraft, we continue to recommend that, when traveling by air, all
parents purchase an airline ticket for every child in the family and
place each child in a size-appropriate restraint system to ensure that
everyone travels safely."
The Safety Alert can be found on the NTSB website here:
http://ntsb.gov/alerts/SA_015.pdf. Additional information about past
NTSB safety recommendations on child passenger safety on aircraft can be
found on the website here: http://ntsb.gov/aviation/aviation.htm
NTSB PRESS RELEASE
National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC 20594
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 27, 2010, SB-10-19
NTSB ISSUES SAFETY ALERT TO URGE PARENTS TO USE CHILD RESTRAINT
SYSTEMS DURING AIR TRAVEL
The National Transportation Safety Board today issued a Safety
Alert to advise parents of the dangers to young children on aircraft
when not restrained in an approved child restraint system or device. The
Safety Alert notes that preventable injuries and deaths have occurred in
children younger than 2 years who were unrestrained.
Specific child passenger safety issues on aircraft include the
likelihood that parents and caregivers may not be able to maintain a
secure hold on a lap-held child during turbulence and survivable
accidents. Additionally, unrestrained children have become separated
from their parents during survivable crashes and parents were unable to
locate them during the evacuation.
"As the summer travel season gets underway, the NTSB would like
to remind families traveling with children that child restraints are the
best way to keep youngsters safe - whether traveling by car or air,"
said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman. "While the NTSB would still
like to see a federal regulation requiring the use of child restraints
on aircraft, we continue to recommend that, when traveling by air, all
parents purchase an airline ticket for every child in the family and
place each child in a size-appropriate restraint system to ensure that
everyone travels safely."
The Safety Alert can be found on the NTSB website here:
http://ntsb.gov/alerts/SA_015.pdf. Additional information about past
NTSB safety recommendations on child passenger safety on aircraft can be
found on the website here: http://ntsb.gov/aviation/aviation.htm