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Presumably the FAA would have records of all flights as you have to submit flight plans to ATC. Then they just see how many crashes there were that resulted in

• sokoloff 11y ago
  Those aren't the "aviation" numbers, but rather more likely the "scheduled airlines" numbers. The fatal rate for all of aviation is well over 4 accidents last year, and there are not flight plans for even half of the general aviation flights. There were 5 aviation fatals last month in the US: http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/month.aspx http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/month.aspx For scheduled service, I only see one fatal accident last year in the US, and that was a Cessna 207 (single engine, piston aircraft) that crashed in Alaska, hardly relevant to scheduled airline service in transport category twin-jets. http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20150718X04523&key=1 http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=... I suspect that most people would not consider this airline service, though it was operating as scheduled service. Non-US in 2015 had 4 fatal accidents on scheduled airline service, which is presumably the numerator the article is citing: GermanWings 9525 (suicidal pilot): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525 TransAsia 245 (pilot error subsequent to mechanical failure): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_235 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_235 Triguana 257 (poor weather, unclear pilot contribution): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigana_Air_Service_Flight_257 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigana_Air_Service_Flight_257 Metrojet 9268 (bomb): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrojet_Flight_9268 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrojet_Flight_9268