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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^P
Total fatalities	787	1,029	1,310	1,252	1,239	956	767	786	857	736	^R725	734	632	^R643	^R623	628
Total seriously injured persons	N	N	715	769	681	483	402	429	391	383	408	395	359	365	^R330	325
Total accidents^b	4,793	5,196	4,712	3,995	3,590	2,739	2,215	2,175	2,073	2,039	^R1,994	2,053	^R1,908	^R1,853	^R1,909	1,908
Fatal	429	538	641	633	618	498	443	433	446	398	^R403	412	360	^R353	^R365	342
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	^R25,464	26,796	27,080
Rates per 100,000 flight hours^c
Fatalities	6.00	6.15	5.03	4.35	3.40	3.38	2.69	2.84	3.46	3.23	^R3.26	^R2.95	2.54	^R2.53	^R1.95	2.32
Seriously injured persons	N	N	2.75	2.67	1.87	1.71	1.41	1.55	1.58	1.68	1.83	^R1.59	1.44	1.43	^R1.23	1.2
Total accidents	36.53	^R31.05	^R18.10	^R13.87	^R9.86	^R9.66	^R7.77	^R7.85	^R8.36	8.94	^R8.96	^R8.23	^R7.67	^R7.28	^R7.12	7.05
Fatal	3.27	3.22	2.46	2.20	^R1.70	^R1.75	1.55	1.56	1.80	1.74	^R1.80	1.64	1.45	^R1.39	^R1.36	1.26

^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%.
^cRates are computed by dividing the number of fatalities, serious injuries, total accidents, and fatal accidents by the number of flight hours.
^dData for 1960, 1965, and 1970 include air taxi.

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

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.
1985-99: Ibid. Internet site www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Table10.htm, as of May 10, 2000.
Serious injuries:
1970-94: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: General Aviation (Washington, DC: Annual issues).
1995-99: Ibid. Analysis and Data Division, personal communications, 1996; 1997; 1998; and Mar. 28, 2000.

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

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