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Uh, no, not even close. Latest Nall Report [1]: 73.8% due to pilot-related (action or inaction). A TBM is pressurized, and would "lose oxygen" only if the cab
by schmookeeg 8y ago
Uh, no, not even close.
Latest Nall Report [1]: 73.8% due to pilot-related (action or inaction).
A TBM is pressurized, and would "lose oxygen" only if the cabin had already depressurized, either due to a rare malfunction (like the TBM 930 a year or two ago) or a pilot not knowing how to work the pressurization controller and climbing up into hypoxic altitudes, and then ALSO not having his emergency oxygen supply stocked, or not attempting to use it at all.
I'm surprised at your comment, to be honest, and the only motive for it I can guess is envy. Dentists and Businessmen in million dollar planes are a thin thin sliver of the General Aviation population.
[1] https://www.aopa.org/-/media/files/aopa/home/training-and-safety/nall-report/27thnallreport2018.pdf?la=en&hash=C52F88B38FD95CB7C0A43F3B587A12E2692A8502 https://www.aopa.org/-/media/files/aopa/home/training-and-sa...
- DanielBMarkham 8y agoI think you're misinterpreting hangar talk for aviation safety advice. The "dentist crashing his expensive plane" has been a trope in the aviation community for a long, long time. (Perhaps at some point it matched up with the stats? I don't know) By now, it's apocryphal, the point being that focusing on the gear or the money involved instead of actually managing risk is a good way to get killed. I used to read the safety stats a lot. One of my favorites was "running out of gas". It always amazed me how many really good pilots and really good airplanes ended up in a bad way because of simply running out of gas.