Factors associated with pilot fatalities in work-related aircraft crashes — Alaska, 1990-1999

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 26, 2002

(*) An aviation crash, defined by FAA and NTSB as an aviation "accident," is "[a]n-occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and until such as all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage."

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