"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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Now, it would surprise me if the "10 deaths per year", or even the "6
deaths per year" claim is supported by historical data. But even so, with
fatalities running around 2000/year (a little less recently), given the
huge amount of GA traffic at Oshkosh, I'm not even convinced that 6 or 10
deaths per year is all that out of line with the overall GA population.

Sorry...I misread the AOPA article I was looking at. 2000/year is the
accident rate, not the fatality rate. The fatalities are about a third in
number of the total accident rate.

Still...6 or 10 doesn't sound that out of line, especially when you consider
the high-risk environment (naturally, you will see a higher accident and
fatality rate in higher-risk environments, by definition).

In any case, I still hold to my assertion that no one should be surprised
that there are stupid pilots.