by "Steve Foley" Feb 6, 2006 at 07:29 PM


Interesting statistics, but as I'm sure you know, 73.8% of published
statistics are incorrect.

They are talking about pilots and navigators as an occupation. They also
show 90 deaths in 2002 and claim that represents 69.8 deaths per 100,000
employed. That yields 128,940 employed in the field.

Another page from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 106,000 employed
as
pilots or flight engineers.

Looking through the NTSB site, I only found 48 fatalities in 28 accidents
looking at part 121 (scheduled airlines - 0 fatal) part 135
(non-scheduled
air taxi - 36) part 133 (three fatal) and part 137 (agriculture - 9
fatal).
That only accounts for 48 deaths, not 90. It's still a pretty high
number.

The other point is that although on the chart you pointed out Pilots and
Navgators had the highest percentage of fatalaties per 100,000 employed,
they also had the lowest number of deaths.

How much effort should go into saving these 90 people when 2667 people
died
in the nine occupations with higher numbers of deaths?

Interesting: I don't know where BLS gets its statistics. One would think
directly from employers, but I'm not sure. I'll try to find out.