On Apr 11, 6:27 pm, "Maxwell" wrote:
"Dan Luke" wrote in message

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Wait 'til Scary Mary gets on TV with this:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10403256.htm

That's priceless!!!

"The higher fatality rate for general aviation crashes may be because such
aircraft are not as able to withstand impact forces and protect occupants
from death and severe injury as commercial aircraft are," the researchers
wrote.

Either Ralph Nader has a daughter, or MX has a sister.

The statistics are no surprise.
I'll bet that private automobile death rates are higher than those for
professionally driven buses, too.

Even basing the statistics on "per passenger mile" isn't quite fair.
Commercial flights, by their nature, are relatively long, or the
passengers would have driven. Many private flights are short and for
fun. You can flap your wings in a Cub all day and get nowhere
compared to a short hop in a 747. Multiply that by a few hundred
passengers, and the statistics are, well, true but worthless.

It might be easier to build GA aircraft better, if it wasn't so durn
expensive to build them in the first place, by the time the regulators
get done with everything.