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A fire problem in aircraft accident investigation

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/40001529
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  1. National Research Council of Canada
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SubjectFire; aircraft; accidents; fire; probabilistic approach
Abstract
In the wreckage of crashed aircraft, fragments are often found to show signs of fire, and it may be of great importance to determine whether fire preceded or followed the crash. If a certain number of fire-marked fragments should be found to fit on to one another, this may be due to chance or to marking before fracture. This study provides a means of estimating the probability of given configurations on the hypothesis of random distribution of the marked pieces.
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PublisherNational Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
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  • Research Paper (National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research), no. DBR-RP-278 (January 1966).
NoteReprinted from: Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal, v. 12, no. 1, January 1966, p. 7-10. ISSN: 0008-2821
LanguageEnglish
Peer reviewedYes
NRC numberNRC 8821
NRC-IRC-201
NPARC number20374638
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