Super Dimona accident

On Sep 8, 11:05*am, Ramy wrote:
On Sep 8, 9:23*am, Greg Arnold wrote:





On 9/8/2011 8:54 AM, Renny wrote:

On Sep 8, 7:44 am, JJ *wrote:
The NTSB just reported a Super Dimona crashed in the pattern at
Winsted, MN on 5Sept. 1 dead, 1 injured. Anybody got any more info on
this?
Does that make 8 this year?
Sad,
JJ

JJ,
Sadly, *this appears to be the 9th glider or motorglider related
fatality of the year in the US.....
Renny

Don't we have close to 10 fatalities in a typical year, so this year is
about average?

Assuming that there are 5000 active pilots in the US, that gives a
typical pilot a 1/500 chance of getting killed each year, or about 20
times higher than the chance of getting killed in an auto crash.

Average is around 6-7 per year. At this rate we will break 10 before
the year ends!
1/500 chance per year, makes it 1/20 chance in 25 years! This sounds
about right when you look at how many old time pilots are still
around... This is really sad.

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Does this mean we can't use the "safer than driving to the airport"
anymore?