Word: werjefelt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Emergency Vision Assurance System, manufactured by VisionSafe Corp. in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The portable, 5-lb. units inflate to form smoke-free plastic "cocoons" around instrument panels and windshields. Pilots activate the systems--there are two in each cockpit--after donning oxygen masks and goggles. Says mechanical engineer Bertil Werjefelt, who invented the device in the late 1980s and is president of VisionSafe: "There should never be a question for a second whether or not the pilots are able...
...Swedish-born Werjefelt, 54, has failed to win over the FAA. It maintains that goggles and oxygen masks are all that flight crews need to cope with cockpit-smoke emergencies, which occur at the rate of 40 to 50 a year on U.S. domestic flights. The agency says studies show that efforts to set up and activate EVAS-like devices could distract pilots from the task of controlling their planes. Many flight crews would disagree, according to John Mazor, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 50,000 commercial pilots. The EVAS, he says, "really works...
...Bert Werjefelt, an inventor of certified aviation safety equipment who performed his own investigation, tells TIME Daily that faulty wiring caused the blaze. And he believes old wiring puts as many as 2,000 similar commercial planes at risk...
...inventor presented his findings to NTSB technical staffers last Friday. But the information was rejected ? even though it was backed up by Vernon Gross, a former NTSB board member who also believes the ValuJet crash was caused by an electrical fire. Werjefelt says the industry has lobbied against his recommendation to replace aging wires. "Replacing that wiring would cost airlines about as much as it would for them to buy new planes," says Werjefelt...
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