Pilot age and error in air taxi crashes

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 647-651

  Rebok, George W ^a   Qiang, Yandong ^a   Baker, Susan P ^b   Li, Guohua ^c  

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

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Air taxi crashes; Pilot error rates; Safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AIRPLANE PILOT; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ERROR; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TRAFFIC SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67651023927     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2369.2009     Document Type: Article

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