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Fatal light aircraft accidents in Papua New Guinea.
The number of light aircraft (less than 5,700) in the developing world is small compared to those in the West, and little information on aviation accidents is readily available from developing countries. Papua New Guinea, enjoys a priviledged position, since aviation was introduced early and much of the country was opened through flying. During the period of Australian trusteeship until indepen...
متن کاملCharacteristics and toxicological processing of postmortem pilot specimens* from fatal civil aviation accidents.
INTRODUCTION Autopsied biosamples from civil aviation accident pilot fatalities are submitted to the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) for toxicological evaluation. However, such evaluation is dependent on types and amounts of submitted samples, and obtaining suitable samples is governed by the nature of the accident. Characteristics of those samples and associated toxicological processi...
متن کاملPrevalence of drugs and alcohol in fatal civil aviation accidents between 1994 and 1998.
BACKGROUND The use of drugs and alcohol in aviation is closely monitored by the FAA Office of Aviation Medicine's (OAM's) Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI) through the toxicological analysis of specimens from pilots who have died in aviation accidents. METHOD Frozen specimens received from local pathologists were tested and the results entered into a computer database for future analysis. Th...
متن کاملPilot-induced factors in fatal light aircraft accidents in the United Kingdom: 1969-1981.
The author reviews 52 personally investigated fatal light aircraft accidents involving 8 professional pilots and 44 private pilots. In 22 of the 52 accidents the presence of any pre-crash defect or malfunction of airframe, engine, or flying controls was definitely excluded. In the opinion of the author there was a "pilot-induced" factor in 35 (69.3%) of the 52 fatal accidents. The author discus...
متن کاملAlcohol associated with fatal light aircraft accidents, United Kingdom-1964-1973.
A total of 86 fatal light aircraft accidents in the United Kingdom from January 1964 to December 1973 are reviewed, in which tissue alcohol determinations were undertaken on 102 pilots. Alcohol was detected in 34 cases varying from small amounts of 313 mg/100 ml. The difficulties of interpretation of post mortem tissue alcohol levels are discussed with particular reference to those cases with m...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.24.4.374-c