Tragity

"ET" wrote in message
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So, GA deaths due to mid-airs, runway incursions, and hidden A&P/AI
screw-ups add up to a higher fatality rate than driving???? HA! I just
don't see that.

Sorry, but "HA!" doesn't trump actual data.

I read the ntsb reports every month, and while I have done no math of
the causes, etc...

That's the problem. Others *have* done the math, and have discussed it here.
The results of that analysis are completely at odds with your informal
impression.

Collisions and non-pilot causes (mechanical/maintenance error) add up to
about 10% of fatal GA accidents (see AOPA's Nall Report). Since the GA
fatality rate is more than ten times that of driving (more than twenty times
if we just look at personal flying), 10% of that rate is still more than the
total accident rate for driving.

Quit frankly if the rate is as high as you say for the 3 above causes,
BRS should be selling a HELL of a lot more all-plane parachutes!

Perhaps they would, if more pilots were to do the math.

--Gary