Aerospace Medicine Technical Reports

FAA Office of Aerospace Medicine
Civil Aerospace Medical Institute


Report No: DOT/FAA/AM-66/25

Title and Subtitle: Physician flight accidents.

Report Date: September 1966

Authors: Mohler SR, Freud SF, Veregge JE, Umberger EL.

Abstract: An analysis of physician flight accidents during the period 1964-1965 is presented. More than thirty physicians sustained fatal injuries while piloting light aircraft: a fatality record four times the ratio of physician pilots in the general aviation pilot population.

Key Words: aviation accidents, medical personnel, aviation injuries, mortality rate, civil aviation, pilots.

No. of Pages: 8

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