Rory O'Conor wrote:
I am surprised by this statement.=20
Do you have any evidence to support this?
Are you including commercial flying within power flying, or just
recreational power flying?

Official US statistics for 2001 can be had he

http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2006/ARG0601.pdf

It's for general aviation, so obviously big jets are out, but I don't know
exactly where the line is drawn.

The fatal accident rate for gliders in that year was 4.17 per 100,000
hours, over three times the rate for all aircraft at 1.29. The total rate
(fatal and non-fatal) is similarly elevated.

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Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software