"TaxSrv" wrote in message
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"Gary Drescher" wrote:
But there's an entirely different, additional distortion
that I'm addressing: if there are many flights that might not
count as YE flights if there's an accident, but will
count as YE if there's not an accident,

It's a distortion if true. I have no clue. What's the factual
basis for your clue?

The factual basis is the report that some YE pilots have made here that any
flight by an EAA pilot with a young passenger can count as a YE flight if
the paperwork is filled out and sent in. That creates a strong potential for
the distortion I'm speaking of. The extent to which the potential is
realized is a matter of sheer guesswork, which I'm not inclined to indulge
in one way or the other. So my conclusion is that we just don't know, with
any reasonable reliability, how YE's fatality rate compares with GA
generally. I'm not insisting that it's *not* lower; I just don't think
there's good evidence either way.

Hm, does the NTSB necessarily know about crash-related
insurance claims, settlements, or lawsuits?

If NTSB answers the telephone. If there's substantial hull damage
or serious injury, I think the ins co, and/or a plaintiff's att'y,
expects FAA/NTSB to know about it and for them to proceed if they
didn't know.

Offhand, I don't know of any reason that a plantiff or insurer would care
whether the FAA or NTSB knows that a flight was a YE flight; what reason do
you see for that? (And if the child's parent(s) were aboard the fatal flight
too, there might not be anyone left who even knows that it was intended to
be a YE flight.)

--Gary