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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.


Agreed.

I think I saw a couple of points that defeated the purpose of the artical to
me. She stated the statistics were comparable to riding a motorcycle which
doesn't seem to send her running off to save the bike shops, when it seems
to me a lot more people consider them well worth the risk. And she doesn't
mention what an large part of GA accidents are attributed to fuel starvation
and weather. If you are a fair weather pilot like me, and always asure you
have quality fuel and extra reserves, it seems to speak very well for GA to
me.

I wonder what the latest numbers are for GA fatalities due to fuel stavation
and weather? Isn't it about 90%?