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Tragic... It's seems like once every other month you hear about a small passenger jet crashing like this. This one happening yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/

• gwern 17y ago
  In general. Small civilian aircraft are death traps (although maybe not as bad as cars); https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/General_aviation#Regulation_and_safety https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/General_aviat... > According to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, in 2005 general aviation in the United States (excluding charter) suffered 1.31 fatal accidents for every 100,000 hours of flying in that country, compared to 0.016 for scheduled airline flights. (One can imagine many reasons for this; more professional maintenance, more professional pilots, more redundancy in the systems of big airplanes; whatever. But the safety differential is not imaginary.)