On Sep 8, 10:23*am, Greg Arnold wrote:
On 9/8/2011 8:54 AM, Renny wrote:

On Sep 8, 7:44 am, JJ *wrote:
The NTSB just reported a Super Dimona crashed in the pattern at
Winsted, MN on 5Sept. 1 dead, 1 injured. Anybody got any more info on
this?
Does that make 8 this year?
Sad,
JJ

JJ,
Sadly, *this appears to be the 9th glider or motorglider related
fatality of the year in the US.....
Renny

Don't we have close to 10 fatalities in a typical year, so this year is
about average?

Assuming that there are 5000 active pilots in the US, that gives a
typical pilot a 1/500 chance of getting killed each year, or about 20
times higher than the chance of getting killed in an auto crash.

From the latest SSF Safety report...

"In addition, the average number of fatalities has remained
nearly constant, at just over 6 per year since the mid 1990’s."

Thx - Renny