I am keenly interested in why accidents occur (and seem to re-occur) and
propose to write a paper on same. The common taxonomies of
powered flight don't necessarily all apply to gliders, so I'm going to
develop or modify an existing one and apply it to the (considerable) data
that I have. Does anyo
Off the top of my head you could start with a matrix.
Have phase of flight on one axis and then nature of accident
eg loss of control (spin), controlled flight into terrain
(yes it happens), mechanical failure, fire (electrical),
fire (fuel / engine) etc across the other.
That may give you some g
Greate ideas all, Anthony. The problem that I can see is the very
subjective nature of the determination of the cause/nature of the
accident/incident. Off the top of my head, could be an example where the
nature of the accident was stall/spin and cause could be loss of control.
Maybe these could be
