摘要: The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) analyzes circumstances and datafrom civil aviation accidents and ascribes one or more causes and/or related factors to help explain each accident. Among the formally accepted NTSB ca... 展开 The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) analyzes circumstances and datafrom civil aviation accidents and ascribes one or more causes and/or related factors to help explain each accident. Among the formally accepted NTSB categories of accident causation is one termed lost/disoriented; that term generally differs from spatial disorientation and refers more to a loss of geographic awareness and, perhaps, resulting confusion on the part of the pilot. The present study was undertaken to provide information regarding the circumstances surrounding these fatal general aviation accidents in recent years, and to define demographic and behavioral characteristics of the lost/disoriented pilots. Those reports were examined and analyzed in terms of type of accident, age and experience of pilots, actions of pilots, night or day, and other conditions. The computer search yielded a total of 120 accidents in which lost/disoriented was among the findings noted by investigators of general 收起