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Sad for this. I am wondering: what's the data on how safe, or unsafe, "private" planes are, e.g. compared to commercial jets?

• schmookeeg 4mo ago
  You'll want the McSpadden report (formerly the Nall report) here [1] Pay attention to the accidents per 100,000 hours in commercial vs non-commercial fixed wing. Commercial is about 10-40x safer. [1] https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institute/accident-analysis/richard-g-mcspadden-report/mcspadden-report-figure-view/?category=all&year=2023&condition=all&report=true https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institut...
  • FabHK 4mo ago
    Note that here „commercial“ is commercial general aviation (so, not military and not scheduled airliners). Airliners are far safer still.
  • croes 4mo ago
    But commercial planes have a lot more passengers per plane So in the end commercial planes have a higher death toll?
• addaon 4mo ago
  In order of safest to least safe: commercial jets, automobiles, general aviation aircraft, motorcycles, messing around with Jim.