"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
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"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
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Both car and GA accident rates have dramatically declined with technical
improvements to safety over the last decades. This expert is simply not
supported
by the numbers.

Reductions in GA accident rates largely came about in the decades before
the
1960s/70s vintage airplanes most of us now fly.

NTSB statistics and the general aviation media clearly show that by far
the
majority of current GA accidents are due to pilot error and that only a
small portion are due to mechanical failure. Thus it remains to be
demonstrated whether further reduction in the GA accident rate would be
best
done via additional equipment such as a BRS parachute vs. pilot training.

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Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com


It would be interesting if someone would determine how many GA fatal
accidents could be saved if all planes were BRS equipped. My guess is it
would be a very small percentage.

Traffic fatalities have been in the 40,000+ range since the 1940s. Many
more automobiles and many more miles driven but at the end of the year the
number of dead people has been the same for over 50 years.