Publisher's Synopsis
Usually aviation accidents are categorized and analyzed within flight conduct rules (Part 121, Part 135, Part 91) because differences in accident rates within flight rules have beendemonstrated. Even within a particular flight rule the flights have different purposes. For many, Part 121 flights are synonymous with scheduled passenger transport, and indeed this is thelargest group of Part 121 accidents. But there are also non-scheduled (charter) passengertransport and cargo flights. The primary purpose of the analysis reported here is to examine thedifferences in aviation accidents based on the purpose of the flight. Some of the factors examinedare the accident severity, aircraft characteristics and accident occurrence categories. Twentyconsecutive years of data were available and utilized to complete this analysi
