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Even that page understates the difference. There has been no fatal crash of a major national US carrier since 2001, and there have been only a small handful of
by cge 12y ago
Even that page understates the difference. There has been no fatal crash of a major national US carrier since 2001, and there have been only a small handful of regional carrier crashes in the last ten years. There are fatal GA crashes all the time, and are common enough that they aren't even included on many online sites or covered much beyond local news. The most recent one seems to have been yesterday.
- mikeash 12y agoJust to put some numbers on this, in 2010 (the last year I could find stats on with lazy Googling) there were 267 fatal GA crashes with 453 fatalities in the US. There were no airliner fatalities in the US, just like most years in the past decade. While I'm at it, there were 32,788 automobile traffic fatalities in 2010 in the US, although of course there's vastly more car activity than GA activity.