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Table 2-14: U.S. General Aviation^a Safety Data

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	1960^d	1965^d	1970^d	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
TOTAL fatalities	787	1,029	1,310	1,252	1,239	956	767	^R799	^R867	^R740	^R730	^R735	^R636	^R631	^R624	^R619	594
TOTAL seriously injured persons	N	N	715	769	681	^R501	^R409	^R432	^R408	^R385	^R415	^R396	^R365	^R350	^R327	^R322	310
TOTAL accidents^b	4,793	5,196	4,712	3,995	3,590	2,739	^R2,241	^R2,197	^R2,111	^R2,063	^R2,022	^R2,056	^R1,908	^R1,845	^R1,904	^R1,906	1,838
Fatal	429	538	641	633	618	498	443	^R438	^R451	^R400	^R404	^R413	^R361	^R350	^R364	^R340	343
Flight hours (thousands)	13,121	16,733	26,030	28,799	36,402	28,322	28,510	27,678	24,780	22,796	22,235	24,906	24,881	^R25,591	^R25,518	^R29,713	29,057
Rates per 100,000 flight hours^c
Fatalities	6.00	6.15	5.03	4.35	3.40	3.38	2.69	^R2.88	^R3.50	^R3.25	^R3.28	2.95	^R2.56	^R2.47	^R2.45	^R2.08	2.04
Seriously injured persons	N	N	2.75	2.67	1.87	^R1.77	^R1.43	^R1.56	^R1.65	^R1.69	^R1.87	1.59	^R1.47	^R1.37	^R1.28	^R1.08	1.07
Total accidents	36.53	31.05	18.10	13.87	9.86	9.66	^R7.86	^R7.93	^R8.52	^R9.05	^R9.09	^R8.26	7.67	^R7.21	^R7.46	^R6.41	6.33
Fatal	3.27	3.22	2.46	2.20	1.70	1.75	1.55	^R1.58	^R1.82	^R1.75	^R1.82	^R1.66	1.45	^R1.37	^R1.43	^R1.14	1.18

KEY: N = data do not exist; P = preliminary; R = revised.

^a U.S. registered civil aircraft not operated under 14 CFR 121 or 14 CFR 135. Accidents on foreign soil and in foreign waters are excluded. Suicide/sabotage cases included in accidents and fatalities but excluded from accident rates in this table are: 1985 (3 accidents, 2 fatal accidents); 1990 (1,0); 1995 (4,3).

^b Since April 1995, the National Transportation Safety Board has been required by law to investigate all public-use accidents, increasing the number of NTSB reported general aviation accidents by approximately 1.75%.

^c Rates are computed by dividing the number of fatalities, serious injuries, total accidents, and fatal accidents by the number of flight hours.

^d Data for 1960, 1965, and 1970 include air taxi.

NOTE: Flight hours are estimated by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration.

SOURCES:

Fatalities, accidents, and flight-hours:

1960-70: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. General Aviation, Calendar Year 1970, NTSB/ARG-74/1 (Washington, DC: April 1974), table 117.

1975-80: Ibid. Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: General Aviation, Calendar Year 1985, NTSB/ARG-87/03 (Washington, DC: October 1987), table 21.

1985-2000: Ibid. Internet site www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Table10.htm as of May 7, 2002.

Serious injuries:

1970-94: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: General Aviation (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

1995-2000: Ibid. Analysis and Data Division, personal communications, 1996; 1997; 1998; Mar. 28, 2000, and May 8, 2002.

Table 2-14: U.S. General Aviationa Safety Data

Table 2-14: U.S. General Aviation^a Safety Data