"A Lieberman" wrote in message
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Compared to driving cars, motorcycles and boats, yes, the fact that only
one or two deaths in one million flights to me is an incredible safety
record.

Your impression is not borne out by the available statistics. Two fatalities
out of a million half-hour flights is indeed three or four times lower than
the GA average, but still higher than the hourly fatality rate for
automobiles. (There have been many threads here that adduced data to show
that the hourly GA fatality rate is about an order of magnitude higher than
the automobile fatality rate.) Also, despite the lack of precedent alleged
by the EAA, one other apparent Young Eagle fatality has already been pointed
out here from the NTSB database, so it's not entirely clear what their
safety record really is.

You can bet, if in one day, there was a multicar crash that killed 3
people, one motorcycle accident that killed one person or a GA plane that
bought the farm, that the plane that bought the farm will get the
headline
news in spite the fact the car crash killed more people.

You can bet that, but again you'd be at odds with readily available facts.
For example, if you look at today's online Olympian front page, you'll see
that a fatal bus crash (five dead, including one child) is listed among the
"Top Stories", whereas the Young Eagles crash we've been discussing (three
dead, including two children) is listed less prominently.
http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

--Gary