NIAR Conducts Full-Scale Fuselage Drop Test For Aircraft Safety

Molly McMillin November 12, 2021
Turkish Airlines plane crashed
Olivares’ team is working to virtually replicate the 2009 accident of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, which crashed on final approach at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport .
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WICHITA—Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) has conducted a full-scale fuselage drop test using anthropomorphic test dummies and post-mortem human passengers inside a Challenger 601 fuselage to validate advanced virtual engineering models of the same test set...
Molly McMillin

Molly McMillin, a 25-year aviation journalist, is managing editor of business aviation for the Aviation Week Network and editor-in-chief of The Weekly of Business Aviation, an Aviation Week market intelligence report.

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