Geographic variations in crash risk of general aviation and air taxis

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-21

  Kearney, Patrick J ^a,c   Li, Guohua ^b  

^a USAF School of Aerospace Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MPH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air taxis; Crash risk; General aviation; Geographic variations

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; GEOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033982852     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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