Recent Aircraft Accidents.

Increasing the Survival Rate in Aircraft Accidents

Recent PCB accidents in Finland.

Twenty-eight polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) accidents were recorded during a 1-year period in Finland. They comprised leaks, fires or explosions of capacitors. Some of the explosions and fires gave rise to high concentrations of PCBs in air and of PCBs and tetrachlorodibenzofurans (TCDFs), including 2,3,7,8-TCDF, on surfaces. One large explosion is described in detail, and biomedical data and f...

Neuro-physiological and Psychological Factors in Aircraft Accidents.

Relative Linkage Disequilibrium Applications to Aircraft Accidents and Operational Risks

Association rules are one of the most popular unsupervised data mining methods. Once obtained, the list of association rules extractable from a given dataset is compared in order to evaluate their importance level. The measures commonly used to assess the strength of an association rule are the indexes of support, confidence, and lift. Relative Linkage Disequilibrium (RLD) was proposed in as an...

Contrast-Set Mining of Aircraft Accidents and Incidents

Identifying patterns of factors associated with aircraft accidents is of high interest to the aviation safety community. However, accident data is not large enough to allow a significant discovery of repeating patterns of the factors. We applied the STUCCO algorithm to analyze aircraft accident data in contrast to the aircraft incident data in major aviation safety databases and identified fact...