Wheel-well and cargo compartment temperatures of large aircraft in flight: Implications for stowaways

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 673-676

  Perry, Gad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cargo compartment; Hypothermia; Temperature; Wheel well

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; ACUTE DISEASE; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANOXIA; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; GUAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SNAKE; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; DATA COLLECTION; GUAM; HAWAII; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MICRONESIA; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; SNAKES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SURVIVAL; SURVIVORS; TEMPERATURE; ANIMALS; HUMANS;

EID: 0035987617     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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