Data on all fatal commercial airplane crashes from 1993–2015.
Excludes small planes (less than 6 passengers) and non-commercial (cargo, military, private) aircraft.
Usage
data("AirCrash")
Format
A data frame with 439 observations on the following 5 variables.
Phase
phase of the flight, a factor with levels en routelandingstandingtake-offunknown
Cause
a factor with levels criminalhuman errormechanicalunknownweather
date
date of crash, a Date
Fatalities
number of fatalities, a numeric vector
Year
year, a numeric vector
Details
Phase of the flight was cleaned by combining related variants, spelling, etc.