On 2007-07-20, Tina wrote:

Note to those reading this thread. Gombos' claim that that fuel
mismanagement is the leading cause of GA accidents is not supported
by the data. See for example

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=2&gl=us

Thanks for the correction. I had heard fuel starvation being a
leading cause from a ground instructor at one school, and a CFI at
another school. They were apparently working with old data; AOPA has
an article claiming that as of 2001, fuel starvation incidents have
declined to 1/3rd of what they were in the 80's, and Wiegmann's study
covers the 90's.

Though I would still call 8.7% significant, and probably the easiest
to prevent among the decision error categories.

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