The Development of An Accident Database to Structure Land Use Regulations in Airport Runway Approach Zones

This report presents and describes 400 aviation accidents which occurred within five miles of an airport. Section 2 contains a description of the development of the database and a discussion of the criteria used in selecting accidents for the database. Section 3 provides a description of the database itself as well as a set of statistics that provide a comprehensive overview of the accidents. A set of aircraft accident contours developed from the accident data points is presented in section 4. The purpose of these contours is to provide a picture of the distribution of accidents over space. Section 5 contains a brief discussion of modeling aircraft accident location probability. A model is not developed in this report. The section also provides a brief discussion of the use of the database in examining airport operations and management strategy. The final section presents an approach to be used in a subsequent empirical investigation using the database supplemented with aircraft movenient data.