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A flight attendant reports that young children cannot be properly secured in the new acro passenger seats installed on their airbus aircraft. The same seatbelts from the removed seats were reinstalled with the new seats; but will not tighten up enough to accommodate the increase curvature of the new seatbacks.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1236698 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201501 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Dawn |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A319 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Seatbelt |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Flight Attendant (On Duty) |
| Qualification | Flight Attendant Current |
| Experience | Flight Attendant Total 15 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown |
Narrative:
Passenger brought to my attention that her 3-year old and 4-year old girls could not be secured in their seatbelts. On this A319 aircraft; it is equipped with the new acro seats and true enough we could not get seatbelt to tighten enough to secure the two girls. We ended up putting coats to secure them better-I know this is not the answer; but was the best we could do. I believe the way the seatback curves backwards makes the seatbelt obsolete for a small child. During pre-flight; it is recommend to change the seatbelts.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A Flight Attendant reports that young children cannot be properly secured in the new ACRO passenger seats installed on their Airbus aircraft. The same seatbelts from the removed seats were reinstalled with the new seats; but will not tighten up enough to accommodate the increase curvature of the new seatbacks.
Narrative: Passenger brought to my attention that her 3-year old and 4-year old girls could not be secured in their seatbelts. On this A319 aircraft; it is equipped with the new acro seats and true enough we could not get seatbelt to tighten enough to secure the two girls. We ended up putting coats to secure them better-I know this is not the answer; but was the best we could do. I believe the way the seatback curves backwards makes the seatbelt obsolete for a small child. During pre-flight; it is recommend to change the seatbelts.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.