Aviat Space Envir Md
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Aviat Space Envir Md · Apr 2000
The incidence, nature, and severity of injuries in New Zealand civil aviation.
Strategies to improve aviation safety can be directed at the pre-crash, in-crash, or post-crash phases of aircraft crashes. For resources to be made available for in-crash interventions, and for these to be well designed, it is necessary in the first instance to have a detailed understanding of the injuries sustained in crashes. The purpose of this study was to describe the incidence, nature, and severity of injuries sustained in aircraft crashes and other related events in civil aviation in New Zealand. ⋯ Different patterns of injury were evident for fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. Reasons for these are suggested. Future research will seek to determine the relative risk associated with potentially modifiable risk factors.