22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-6.7.4

ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN CULTURAL BACKGROUND AND THE COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS

H. Jing, S. Peng, C. J. Lu
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Depertment of Statistics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC

Keywords: correlation, cultural background and commercial aircraft accidents

Indirect proof of the relation between the world aircraft accident rates and the cultural background is established with the correlation study in this research. The most important culture variable found in this study is authoritarianism. The second is the favor. The authoritarianism is about three times more important than the favor. Combination of these two features can explain more then half of the tendency of the accident rates. Further study with more complete data is needed to make more concrete conclusion.

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