Mxsmanic wrote:

A quick look at the NTSB reveals that there were no less than ten GA
accidents on October 18, 1974 alone, and that two of them had
fatalities (both involving Pipers). The deadliest was the one you
described, which killed four people.


I recently had a discussion with a accident risk guru about the finality
of most aircraft crashes (G/A, military non-combat, and airline). He
reminded me of the terrible PSA crash near Paso Robles, California
(BAE-146) where the deranged recently fired ticket agent shot the crew.
Chevron Oil Company lost a bunch of senior executives on that flight.

Chevron, and several other companies, changed their policy to prohibit
that type of group travel by senior executives. They learned the hard
way about "all your eggs in one basket."

The guru commented that, even though automobile travel is far less safe
than airline travel on a statisitical basis, the statistics do not and
cannot factor in the random dynamics of automobile crashes, which
usually do not result in all occupants being killed in a fatal crash.

And, he added, landing accidents of aircraft often spare some occupants,
airline or G/A.