Are measures of air-misses a useful guide to air transport safety policy?

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 168-174

  Button, Kenneth ^a   Drexler, Jonathan ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident data; Air misses; Safety; Transport data

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AIR TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 33646783649     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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