FAA Permits Only Able-Bodied to Sit by Plane Exit Doors
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WASHINGTON — Beginning today, seats by exit doors on U.S. airlines will be restricted by government order to the able-bodied only.
The Federal Aviation Administration regulation says that only people able and willing to open exit doors in an emergency and help flight crews evacuate passengers will be seated in rows adjacent to the doors.
Those barred from seats near exit doors include parents with small children, people too frail to operate the door, passengers with broken limbs or other disabilities that would inhibit movement, obese people, children under 15 and the blind.
The FAA describes an exit row seat as one from which passengers may go directly to an exit without stepping first into an aisle.
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