Correlation of trauma and cause of death to accident reconstruction: a case of a flight accident report.
This paper reports on the disaster that occurred after a flight was hijacked at Baiyuen International Airport in Guangzhou, China, on Tuesday, 2 Oct. 1990. The authors show the results of analyses for the causes of death and trauma and compare the disaster with several previous flight accidents that have occurred in China. The authors show, with the analysis on this accident, the possibility and reliability of reconstructing a disaster by medicolegal investigation.
Min
J X
JX
Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Forensic Science, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Jia
M Z
MZ
D000060:Accidents, Aviation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology*