R/rd-asn_stats.R

#' @importFrom tibble tibble
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#' Aviation Safety Network Statistics, 1942-2019
#'
#' These are yearly counts on air accidents and fatalities, including measures for
#'  corporate jet accidents and hijackings. The hijackings are of particular interest
#'  to me, at least from a historical terrorism perspective.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 78 observations on the following 7 variables.
#' \describe{
#' \item{\code{year}}{numeric vector for the year}
#' \item{\code{airacc}}{a numeric vector for the number of airliner accidents}
#' \item{\code{airfatal}}{a numeric vector for the number of fatalities from airliner accidents}
#' \item{\code{corpjetacc}}{a numeric vector for the number of corporate jet accidents}
#' \item{\code{corpjetfatal}}{a numeric vector for the number of fatalities from corporate jet accidents}
#' \item{\code{hijack}}{a numeric vector for the number of hijackings/skyjackings}
#' \item{\code{hijackfatal}}{a numeric vector for the number of fatalities from hijackings/skyjackings}
#' }
#'
#' @details All fatality estimates exclude ground fatalities. All accidents are
#' hull-loss accidents. The airliner figures are for those flights with at
#' least 14 passengers.
#'
#'
#' @source Aviation Safety Network, a service provided by the Flight Safety Foundation.
#'
"asn_stats"

# Check \url{https://asn.flightsafety.org/statistics/period/stats.php?cat=H2} for more.
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