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

	1960^d	1965^d	1970^d	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	(R) 2009	(P) 2010
Total fatalities	787	1,029	1,310	1,252	1,239	956	770	800	866	744	730	734	636	631	624	621	596	562	581	633	559	563	706	496	494	478	450
Total seriously injured persons	U	U	715	769	681	501	409	431	408	385	415	396	366	350	327	322	309	321	297	323	265	271	265	255	(R) 259	274	255
Total accidents^a,b	4,793	5,196	4,712	3,995	3,590	2,739	2,242	2,197	2,110	2,064	2,021	2,055	1,908	1,840	1,902	1,905	1,837	1,727	1,715	1,741	1,617	(R) 1,671	1,523	(R) 1,651	(R) 1,569	1,480	1,435
Total accidents^a,b, fatal	429	538	641	633	618	498	444	439	450	401	404	412	361	350	364	340	345	325	345	352	314	321	308	288	275	275	267
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	25,591	25,518	29,246	27,838	25,431	25,545	25,998	24,888	23,168	23,963	23,819	22,805	20,862	20,900
Rates per 100,000 flight hours^c
Fatalities	6.00	6.15	5.03	4.35	3.40	3.38	2.70	2.89	3.49	3.26	3.28	2.95	2.56	2.47	2.45	2.12	2.14	2.21	2.27	2.43	2.25	2.43	2.95	2.08	2.17	2.29	2.15
Seriously injured persons	U	U	2.75	2.67	1.87	1.77	1.43	1.56	1.65	1.69	1.87	1.59	1.47	1.37	1.28	1.10	1.11	1.27	1.16	1.24	1.06	1.17	1.11	1.07	(R) 1.14	1.31	1.22
Total accidents^a,b	36.53	31.05	18.10	13.87	9.86	9.67	7.86	7.94	8.51	9.05	9.09	8.25	7.67	7.19	7.45	6.51	6.60	6.79	6.71	6.70	6.50	7.21	6.36	(R) 6.93	(R) 6.88	7.09	6.87
Total accidents, fatal^a,b	3.27	3.22	2.46	2.20	1.70	1.76	1.56	1.59	1.82	1.76	1.82	1.65	1.45	1.37	1.43	1.16	1.24	1.28	1.35	1.35	1.26	1.39	1.29	1.21	1.21	1.32	1.28

KEY: P = preliminary; R = revised; U = data are unavailable.

^aU.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, and stolen/unauthorized cases included in accidents and fatalities but excluded from accident rates in this table are: 1985 (11 accidents, 6 fatal accidents); 1990 (4,1); 1991 (8,5); 1992 (2,1); 1993 (5,4); 1994 (3,2); 1995 (10,6); 1996 (4,0); 1997 (5,2); 1998 (6,4); 1999 (3,1); 2000 (7,7); 2001 (3,1); 2002 (7,6); 2003 (4,3); 2004 (3,0); 2005 (2,1); 2006 (2,1); 2007 (2,2); 2008 (2,0); 2009 (2,0); 2010 (1,1).

^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 Total fatalities, Total seriously injured persons, Total accidents, and Total accidents, fatal by the number of Flight hours, except for the exclusions mentioned in footnote a.

^dData for 1960, 1965, and 1970 include air taxi.

NOTES

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

2010 data are preliminary.

SOURCES

Fatalities, accidents, flight hours and rates per 100,000 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.

1975-2010: National Transportation Safety Board, Aviation Accident Statistics: U.S. General Aviation, table 10, available at http://www.ntsb.gov/data/aviation_stats.html as of July 20, 2011.

Serious injuries:

1970-85: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: General Aviation (Washington, DC: Annual Issues).

1990-2010: Ibid., Analysis and Data Division, personal communications, July 1, 2010 and July 20, 2011.

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

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