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Aircraft Interiors and Flying with Disabilities


This is an excerpt from research done for a global aircraft manufacturer. The study focused on flying with disabilities. PacEth interviewed aviation and disability officials, advocates, and people with different symptoms in four countries. We conducted depth interviews, participant observation, and fly-along videography. We observed the entire travel process--the service itinerary--from leaving home, checking in at the airport, getting seated, using the lavatory, eating (or being unable to), and deplaning.

This video highlights Mr's Huang flight. Mr. Huang forces us to challenge our accepted notions of who is able-bodied and who is not.

A fly-along in progress Sample of the itinerary
Left: Bruno filming a passenger with one of the "invisible disabilities": deafness. Right: Part of an analytical diagram of the flying process.

The web site was designed by Hai Nguyen, M.F.A., of Pacific Ethnography

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