Evaluation of Sailplane Accidents

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  • German Civil Aviation Board German Civil Aviation Board

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Training and Safety

Abstract

Within the scope of flight accident investigation, all occurrences with German, as well as foreign aircraft - as far as they happen in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany - have been recorded and stored by data processing since 1973. At the moment nearly 5000 records, a/c, sailplanes, helicopters, etc. access to U.S. and Australian data. A great number of EDP Programs will enable evaluation of data under many different aspects. In the meantime, a sufficient data stock is available for several data analyses to be made. The definition of an accident is given in ICAO Annex 13.

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