An Analysis of 17 Fatal and 31 Nonfatal Injuries Following an Airplane Crash

Carter, John H.; Burdge, Robert E.; Powers, Samuel R.; Campbell, Charles J.

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“…Recent aircraft related disasters in urban areas highlight the potential magnitude, complexity of emergency response, recovery and reconstruction after such incidents [24,27,6,9]. The crash of the Boing 747 in October 1992 in the Bijlmermeer neighborhood in Amesterdam that destroyed 30 Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg apartments is one of the prime examples.…”

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Mapping potential airplane hazards and risks using airline traffic data

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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Mapping potential airplane hazards and risks using airline traffic data

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“…KEYWORDS: forensic science, aircraft accident, forensic pathology, injury, coding, software, reconstruction Every year, in the world, more than 500 passengers die in air disasters involving commercial or military airplanes, and aviation-related morbidity and mortality is regularly cited (2,3,6,9,10,12,17,24). Numerous questions are raised following an aircraft crash and constitute a challenge for the investigators (both judicial and technical ones).…”

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A New Tool for Coding and Interpreting Injuries in Fatal Airplane Crashes: The Crash Injury Pattern Assessment Tool Application to the Air France Flight AF447 Disaster (Rio de Janeiro–Paris), 1st of June 2009

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For investigation of air disasters, crash reconstruction is obtained using data from flight recorders, physical evidence from the site, and injuries patterns of the victims. This article describes a new software, Crash Injury Pattern Assessment Tool (CIPAT), to code and analyze injuries. The coding system was derived from the Abbreviated Injury Score (AIS). Scores were created corresponding to the amount of energy required causing the trauma (ER), and the software was developed to compute summary variables related to the position (assigned seat) of victims. A dataset was built from the postmortem examination of 154/228 victims of the Air France disaster (June 2009), recovered from the Atlantic Ocean after a complex and difficult task at a depth of 12790 ft. The use of CIPAT allowed to precise cause and circumstances of deaths and confirmed major dynamics parameters of the crash event established by the French Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority.

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Extensive unusual lesions on a large number of immersed human victims found to be from cookiecutter sharks (Isistius spp.): an examination of the Yemenia plane crash

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Accurate determination of the origin and timing of trauma is key in medicolegal investigations when the cause and manner of death are unknown. However, distinction between criminal and accidental perimortem trauma and postmortem modifications can be challenging when facing unidentified trauma. Postmortem examination of the immersed victims of the Yemenia airplane crash (Comoros, 2009) demonstrated the challenges in diagnosing extensive unusual circular lesions found on the corpses. The objective of this study was to identify the origin and timing of occurrence (peri- or postmortem) of the lesions.A retrospective multidisciplinary study using autopsy reports (n = 113) and postmortem digital photos (n = 3 579) was conducted. Of the 113 victims recovered from the crash, 62 (54.9 %) presented unusual lesions (n = 560) with a median number of 7 (IQR 3 ∼ 13) and a maximum of 27 per corpse. The majority of lesions were elliptic (58 %) and had an area smaller than 10 cm2 (82.1 %). Some lesions (6.8 %) also showed clear tooth notches on their edges. These findings identified most of the lesions as consistent with postmortem bite marks from cookiecutter sharks (Isistius spp.). It suggests that cookiecutter sharks were important agents in the degradation of the corpses and thus introduced potential cognitive bias in the research of the cause and manner of death. A novel set of evidence-based identification criteria for cookiecutter bite marks on human bodies is developed to facilitate more accurate medicolegal diagnosis of cookiecutter bites.

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An Analysis of 17 Fatal and 31 Nonfatal Injuries Following an Airplane Crash

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Mapping potential airplane hazards and risks using airline traffic data

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A New Tool for Coding and Interpreting Injuries in Fatal Airplane Crashes: The Crash Injury Pattern Assessment Tool Application to the Air France Flight AF447 Disaster (Rio de Janeiro–Paris), 1st of June 2009

Extensive unusual lesions on a large number of immersed human victims found to be from cookiecutter sharks (Isistius spp.): an examination of the Yemenia plane crash

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