On Jul 23, 2006, at 2:43 PM, terrence o'neill wrote: The intent was to say that the airlines are not much safer than GenAv in spite of the fact that they have all these extra benefits:
Unfortunately, while I wish this was true, statistics do not bear it out. General aviation experiences about 10 times the fatalities per year compared to air carriers. This does not factor in that GA (surprisingly, on the face of it) flies about twice as many total hours as air carriers (approx. 30 million v. about 15 million) with more take offs and landings where 50% of all accidents happen. Regardless, dead is dead.
Anecdotally, think of how many people you know or have heard of dying in GA accidents and compare that to how many people you know have died in airliners. I personally (thankfully) do not know of a single person killed in an airline crash.
Don't tell your wives this, but statistically speaking, GA is significantly more dangerous than driving...
Fly safely!
Barry
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