Airlines as baseball players: Another approach for evaluating an equal-safety hypothesis

Management Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1291-1300

  Czerwinski, David ^a   Barnett, Arnold ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

System safety; Transportation air

Indexed keywords

AIR CARRIERS; AIRLINE SAFETY; FATAL CRASHES; SYSTEM SAFETY; TEST PROCEDURES;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 68049138040     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0533     Document Type: Article

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