Aircraft and related factors in crashes involving spatial disorientation: 15 Years of U.S. Air Force data

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 720-723

  Lyons, Terence J ^a,b   Ercoline, William ^a   O'Toole, Kevin ^a   Grayson, Kevin ^a  

^a Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development   (Japan)

^b Box 316 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Accident epidemiology; Aircraft type; Night flying; Spatial disorientation

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DISORIENTATION; FATALITY; HELICOPTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; AIRCRAFT; CONFUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745955131     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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