Helicopter wire strike accident and high voltage electrocution: a case report.

Helicopter wire-strike accidents usually involve high-voltage lines or telephone wires where the resulting impact is low velocity with minimal loss of occupiable space. Death and injury in these mishaps is often due to blunt force trauma to the head. In a recent wire strike accident investigated by the Division of Aerospace Pathology at The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the circumstances suggest that death of both aviators was due to high-voltage electrocution. Evidence surrounding the case and high-voltage electrocution are discussed.

Instrumentation for the three-dimensional reconstruction of cellular organelles by electron microscopy.

Instrumental additions to the Zeiss EM-10 electron microscope are described as well as a flat-bed scanning densitometer specifically intended for the tomographic assessment of the three-dimensional structure of chromosomes. The additions to the electron microscope consist of two ion-getter pumps, reducing contamination to 0.0004 A/s. Further, a device was attached that made it possible to indicate through markers in the final negative the direction of the axis of tilt of the goniometer stage, i.e. markers indicating the tomographic axis in the digitized image. The flat-bed scanner permits correction of image rotation caused by refocusing. The preparation itself contains polystyrene latex spheres, i.e. objects the shape of which is independent of rotation (tilt). These can be used for computational corrections of the digitized image.