2016/05/01 by Robert O. Walton, P. Michael Politano · 1 voice · 1 citation
Engineering · Health Professions · #Traffic and Road Safety #Air Traffic Management and Optimization #Occupational Health and Safety Research
paper · doi:10.1027/2192-0923/a000085
Abstract. Studies examining aviation accidents have not found differences in accident rates by gender, although there may be gender differences in the types of accident. One study examined accident rates of male and female private pilots and found that males were more likely to have accidents related to inattention or poor planning while female pilots were more likely to have accidents due to mishandling of the aircraft. This research analyzed the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) aviation accident database system to examine the severity of injury and aircraft damage in general aviation accidents by gender. The data indicated that female pilots have accidents with higher aircraft damage and personnel injury rates at lower levels of training and experience compared with male pilots, but they then have significantly fewer accidents compared with male pilots at higher levels of experience.