Reconstruction of the 1994 Pittsburgh airplane accident using a computer simulation

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Parks, Edwin K ^a   Bach, Ralph E ^b   Shin, Jae Ho ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRCRAFT; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FLIGHT SIMULATORS; MATLAB; RADAR TRACKING; TRACKING (POSITION); TRACKING RADAR; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

6 DEGREE OF FREEDOM; ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; ACCIDENT SCENARIOS; COCKPIT VOICE RECORDERS; DIGITAL FLIGHT DATA; INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; MATLAB AND SIMULINK; SIMULATION PROGRAM;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84982318780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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