Citation

Schuliar Y, Chapenoire S, Miras A, Contrand B, Lagarde E. J. Forensic Sci. 2014; 59(5): 1263-1270.

Affiliation

Forensic and Criminal Intelligence Agency of the French Gendarmerie, 1 blvd Sueur, 93110, Rosny-sous-Bois, France; Laboratory of Medical Ethics and Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Paris-Descartes University, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006, Paris, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1556-4029.12529

PMID

25040723

Abstract

For investigation of air disasters, crash reconstruction is obtained using data from flight recorders, physical evidence from the site, and injuries patterns of the victims. This article describes a new software, Crash Injury Pattern Assessment Tool (CIPAT), to code and analyze injuries. The coding system was derived from the Abbreviated Injury Score (AIS). Scores were created corresponding to the amount of energy required causing the trauma (ER), and the software was developed to compute summary variables related to the position (assigned seat) of victims. A dataset was built from the postmortem examination of 154/228 victims of the Air France disaster (June 2009), recovered from the Atlantic Ocean after a complex and difficult task at a depth of 12790 ft. The use of CIPAT allowed to precise cause and circumstances of deaths and confirmed major dynamics parameters of the crash event established by the French Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority.

Language: en