"John Harlow" wrote in message ...
"Private planes were also involved in fewer crashes last year. The
accident
rate fell from 6.77 per 100,000 flight hours to 6.22, the lowest recorded
by
the NTSB since it began keeping statistics in 1975. There were 1,715
general
aviation accidents in 2004, down from 1,864 the year before."

So, does that mean that we are actually getting safer or just exagerating
the number of hours that we fly more than we did in previous years?