NEW APPROACH TO AIR SAFETY STATISTICS

It is our purpose here to show that any single number, no matter upon what basis computed, is logically insufficient for an adequate analysis of air safety; a meaningfuel aand revealing evaluation requires at least three independent rates.

• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Publication Date: 1966-11

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation crashes; Airlines; Crash data; Crash investigation; Crashes; Statistics
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00073599
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: FLIGHT TRANSPORTATION LABORATORY, MIT DEPT. OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
• Report/Paper Numbers: none
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 5 1974 12:00AM