On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:00:28 -0400, Gezellig
wrote:


at one stage 50% of australian built lancairs had killed their
builders and passenger in slow speed flight fatal incidents.

tragic.
Stealth Pilot

I'm not doubting you but is that a pure cite or a guess. If a cite, then
Holy ****!


How many completed Lancairs, especally Legacies, were included?


every australian aircraft. dont know the figure because the details
were related to me by the atsb guy himself. I never saw his
spreadsheet. probably 10 as a ballpark.

http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/...ationStats.pdf

this link is a 375kb download which will show the fatality rates in
australia. it doesnt allow me to segregate figures by aircraft type.


Peter

And what would be next in the line of infamous, present day designs?

My point is that, if at that time, two Lancair Legacies were flying in
Australia and one of them crashed; then that would have been a 50% loss.
However, it would have been a meaningless statistic--which, regrettably, is
not uncommon. Therefore, I have enquired as to whether the data was
statistically significant.

Peter

Agreed. My question is, whether or not the Lanc stats are significant,
are there other statistically significant sets of data that point to
"killer" design flaws.

I think there were 5 or 6 or 7 fatalities. I dont have the figures.
for australia the figure was significant.

Stealth Pilot