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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: safety statistics
Message-ID: <512@terak.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 17:43:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 17:43:10 1985
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Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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Since the FAA is kind enough to send us Arizona airmen regular summaries
of all accidents that occurred in Arizona, I went back through them
and extracted a summary of all the fatal accidents from the start of
'82 through this March.

There were 50 fatal accidents, with a total of 107 people killed.  Of
the 50 accidents, 39 were in high-performance singles, twins, or
experimental aircraft.  Those 39 accidents accounted for 92 of the
deaths.  2 more accidents, and 3 deaths, were in simple single-engine
planes being flown by pilots with commercial ratings.  Only one student
pilot was involved in any of the fatal accidents; interestingly, he was
only slightly injured but his (illegal) passenger was killed.

I've posted the summary in a following message, so that you can see
for yourself what dumb moves people use to kill themselves in my state.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug