Crash rates of scheduled commuter and air carrier flights before and after a regulatory change

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 381-385

  Baker, Susan P ^a   Groff, Loren ^a   Haaland, Wren ^a   Qiang, Yandong ^a   Rebok, George W ^a   Li, Guohua ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft size; Passenger seats; Regulation change

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; POLICY; SEAT;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AVIATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 63849291258     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2370.2009     Document Type: Article

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