Medical Surveillance Programs for Aircraft Maintenance Personnel Performing Nondestructive Inspection and Testing

[摘要] The group of accidents where the rotorcraft rolled and caught fire lead to more fatalities (P=.0001), and the no rollover group with fire generated more fatalities (P=.0001). Rollover accidents injure more pople, and accidents with no rollover kill more occupants. It appears as if the no rollover condition produces greater impact forces, preventing the rotorcraft from bouncing and rolling; consequently, the higher fatality rate. Fires produce more fatalities but not more injuries. Autopsy data might explain this, but smoke inhallation during the evacuation and the speed of the evacuation warrent more attention, since it may be a contributing factor in the number of fatalities. 

[发布机构] FAA Office of Aerospace Medicine - Civil Aerospace Medical Institute

[关键词] Nondestructive Inspection; Nondestructive Testing; Visual Inspection; Aircraft Maintenance; Medical Surveillance