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Aircraft systems · the component layer

Cabin, seats and restraints

Seats, belts and harnesses, interiors, water and waste. Seat rails and restraints are the safety items here.

Operators and repair shops have filed 83,427 failure reports about this system since 1995, 41,000 of them in the last ten years. The part most often named in the reports is the slide. Among model families, the Boeing 737 appears most often in the last ten years; taking fleet size into account, the Boeing 737 has the highest rate among sizeable fleets, about 61.1 reports a year for every 100 aircraft.

Failure reports by year as filed with the FAA

01,4052,8104,2155,620950005101520253,49526

Models most often named last ten years

Boeing 73717,610Airbus A3214,972Boeing 7573,792Airbus A3203,276Airbus A3192,577Embraer ERJ 170 E170 and E1751,966Boeing 7671,778Boeing 7771,375Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ1,348Airbus A300838Airbus A330815Boeing 787 Dreamliner649

Highest rate, fleets of 500 or more reports a year per 100 aircraft registered

Parts most often named

Slide6,453Flashlight4,314Girt Bar3,729Battery3,428Bottle2,645Megaphone1,494Oven968Cover790Fitting721Battery Pack714Bracket663Strap594

What was wrong with them the condition reported

Inoperative7,034Low Pressure3,527Loose2,985Out of Adjust2,369Out of Position2,130No Test1,911Broken1,681Missing1,468Damaged1,457Discharged1,330

Where in the system the FAA's codes

emergency equipment 25,639Equipment and furnishings 11,560buffet and galley 1,913passenger compartment equipment 1,077cargo compartments 837Water and waste 454Equipment and furnishings 342lavatories 339flight compartment equipment 311Equipment and furnishings 302Equipment and furnishings 291Equipment and furnishings 272

FAA orders 0 airworthiness directives · newest first

All 0 orders on this system

Sources: FAA service difficulty reports (yearly files since 1995, grouped by the FAA's four-digit system code into this site's fourteen systems), airworthiness directives, supplemental type certificates, technical standard order authorisations and special conditions from the FAA's Dynamic Regulatory System. Rates per 100 aircraft use today's register as the fleet; they show reporting as much as reliability, and commercial fleets report more. Connections as data: /graph/system/cabin.json.