Dice wrote:
Has anyone done research into the annual number of accidents and fatalities
afflicting pilots flying to or from Oshkosh? During the past few years that
I've been lurking around here, it seems there's one or more every year. The
next question is why?

I did it one year. There are easily a couple of dozen accidents going
to or from that I can identify from the initial FAA reports. This is
not surprising. There are something like 12,000 aircraft at OSHKOSH.
This is a significant amount of the aviation activity. Couple that
with a lot of pilots and aircraft where this is their ONLY long cross
country of the year.

This was a bad year for me. In addition to Geoff, we were taxiing out
in the aftermath of the TBM running over the RV and we heard the pilot
calling mayday on Gary tower who ditched in the lake.