On 2006-03-09, wrote:
I guess that's the real *big picture* view then. I'm not immune to
altered perceptions when it seemed for a while there were 1 or 2 GA
accidents a week.

One or two a week? There are almost always at least a dozen GA accidents
a week. If you go to the 'browse' view on the NTSB website, you'll see
there are far more days with multiple GA accidents than there are days
with no accidents at all. I went to September 2005 (picked at random, no
reason) and there were NO days in September 2005 where there were not at
least 2 GA accidents. Most days had about 5 or 6 GA accidents. There
were 31 fatal GA accidents in September 2005 - one more than September
has days.

You're probably only percieving a cluster because they have been talked
about more, but really - the accidents that have been talked about here
recently are not out of the ordinary (sadly).

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