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Old December 15th 03, 03:01 AM
O. Sami Saydjari
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I did a bit of googling and found the following link.

http://www.ghafi.org/download/GA-Analysis.1.pdf

It suggests that GA flying is 5x safer than driving for non-fatal
accidents, but that driving is 5X safer than GA flying for fatal
accidents. Interesting....

-Sami

W9MV wrote:
According to information obtained from a friend who works at the AOPA Flight
Safety Foundation, he indicated that a rough estimation would compare the
safety of flying a GA aircraft being as safe as driving a motorcycle. Driving a
car is safer than flying
Mark