When smoke enters the cockpit, pilots’ ability to see critical instruments and the outside environment can quickly vanish. Klatt Works created its Smoke Assured Vision Enhanced Display (SAVED) oxygen mask for these scenarios, and the company is spotlighting its progress this week at NBAA-BACE 2025.
The idea for SAVED traces back to the aftermath of UPS Flight 6 in 2010, when a Boeing 747 cargo fire filled the cockpit with dense smoke, overwhelming the crew and leading to a fatal crash near Dubai. This wasn’t an isolated event, but it was a highly visible one. Past accidents also highlighted a need for change, such as the 1987 crash of a South African Airways B747-244B in the Indian Ocean after thick smoke filled the cockpit, resulting in 159 fatalities, and the 1998 crash of a Swissair MD-11 in Nova Scotia, Canada, when a wiring short ignited and caused the cockpit to fill with smoke, causing 229 fatalities.
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