Abstract: For improving a method for rescuing a person sitting in an ejection seat that has ejected from an aircraft in an emergency, wherein depending on data collected by measuring apparatus arranged on the ejection seat a control device initiates deployment of stabilizing and/or braking parachutes attached to the seat and furthermore initiates separation of the person from the ejection seat, it is provided that while the connection between aircraft and ejection seat exists, current flight data for the aircraft are fed via a data bus to an ejection seat computer situated on the ejection seat and once the ejection seat has separated from the aircraft the movement data for the ejection seat in space are collected and forwarded to the ejection seat computer by a navigation platform attached to the ejection seat and, that the relevant flight data for the ejection seat are calculated in the ejection seat computer starting with flight position data for the aircraft at the time the ejection seat separated and when pre-estab

Abstract: A safety belt arrangement, for use in land vehicles or aircraft for securing the occupants thereof, has at least one belt reeling device with a self-locking blocking mechanism with a mechanical control for moving a locking member into the blocking position which prevents the belt from being pulled out further. In order to reduce the response times for the belt reeling devices, a computer is provided which determines the acceleration characteristics of the particular vehicle or aircraft and is coupled to the mechanical control of the belt reeling device, the locking member being moved into its blocking position or returned to its rest position by the mechanical control in response to a signal emitted by the computer.