"Hilton" wrote in message
nk.net...
Allow me to quote a couple of sentences from the latest Nall Report
(2004):
"Accidents in such conditions, for example, adverse weather or at night,
are more likely to result in fatality."
"...only 14.0 percent of daytime accidents resulted in fatalities. At
night, more than one in three (36.1 percent) was fatal."

That's not a meaningful comparison, though. A higher proportion of
fatalities among nighttime accidents could result from a lower rate (per
hour) of nonfatal accidents rather than a higher rate of fatal accidents.

However, the fatality rate at night is indeed higher (and for night IMC,
it's higher still). But I don't know whether that's due to a greater danger
following an engine failure or electrical failure, or instead due to the
danger of, for example, maneuvering accidents during circling approaches
under a low ceiling. If the latter, the increased danger could be eliminated
by avoiding such approaches at night.

--Gary