What causes accidents?

What Causes Accidents?

Why Airplanes Crash: Causes of Accidents Worldwide

In this paper, we report the results of a detailed examination of the causes of 700 fatal aviation accidents that occurred worldwide between 1990 and 2006 in commercial passenger service. We look at both scheduled and nonscheduled and both domestic and international service. We also categorize the accident aircraft as large jets, regional and medium jets, small jets, turboprops, and piston powe...

FDI & Growth : What Causes What ?

The paper examines the causal relationship between FDI and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables. We apply our methodology, based on the Toda-Yamamoto test for causality, to time-series data covering the period 19692000 for three developing countries, namely Chile, Malaysia and Thailand, all of them major rec...

What Causes Eye Pain?

Eye pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience including sensory-discriminative, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components and supported by distinct, interconnected peripheral and central nervous system elements. Normal or physiological pain results of the stimulation by noxious stimuli of sensory axons of trigeminal ganglion (TG) neurons innervating the eye. These are functio...

What Causes Postmortem Tenderization?

Inconsistency and variability in tenderness have been identified as a major problem facing the meat industry (Morgan et al., 1991). Tenderness increases with increasing time of postmortem storage (Calkins and Seideman, 1988; Goll et al., 1964; Wheeler and Koohmaraie, 1994), and it has generally been assumed that part of this increase is caused by postmortem proteolysis mediated primarily by the...