"RobertR237" wrote in message
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In article , Ron Wanttaja
writes:


Total homebuilt accident rate: 10%
Total certified BD-5 rate: 21%
Total all-listing BD-5 rate: 8.5%

So whether the BD-5 is twice as bad as the main fleet or a little bit
better really depends on your interpretation of the certification data.
By
the FAA and EAA's interpretation, the BD-5's accident rate is twice that
of
the main homebuilt fleet.

Ron Wanttaja



What would be more telling would be the accident rate per hours flown.
Even if
the 236 BD-5s were accurate, I suspect the accident per hour would be
significantly higher for the BD5 than your figures indicate.
Unfortunately,
there is no available database that would give that information.


I haven't spent that much time looking at the accident reports but it seems
that TTAF and TTE might be listed somewhere on, if not all, a good number of
accident reports. While you wouldn't get a total time for the fleet you
could get a total time for the accident involved fleet. Might be telling.