Aerospace Medical Research Team

• Print

Our Research Focus
The Aerospace Medicine Team conducts medical and laboratory studies of aircraft accident victims, including onsite participation in selected cases, to analyze medical, engineering, and human factors findings gained from such cases, and conducts appropriate research into the relationships of such findings to the safe operation of aircraft.

This team develops methods for the better understanding of such factors in aircraft accidents and studies performance decrements resulting from disease processes to determine their effects on aviation safety. Also the team maintains a comprehensive data base pertaining to cockpit and cabin safety-related factors in general aviation and transport aircraft. This research may incorporate aircraft and simulators.

Presentation Abstracts

• A Case of Mixed Decompression Illness Manifestations in a Commercial DC-8 Cargo Jet Pilot
• Antecedent Conditions in Heart Attack Related Accidents in Civil Aviation
• Biohazard Management in the Difficult Water Environment: A Comparison of the 1972 L1011 and the 1996 DC-9 Accidents in the Florida Everglades
• Description of Failure of Passenger Seats in a High Vertical Acceleration Accident
• Perceived Pitch Versus Actual Pitch - A Fatal Case of Pilot Perceived Attitude Determining Altitude
• Survival at High Altitude: Wheel-Well Passengers
• The Status of Inflight Medical Care Aboard Selected US Air Carriers