Geographic patterns of pilot fatality rates in commuter and air taxi crashes

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1014-1020

  Grabowski, Jurek G ^a   Curriero, Frank C ^a   Baker, Susan P ^a   Li, Guohua ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aviation safety; Geographic information system (GIS); Pilot fatality; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CALCULATION; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036787748     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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