On Friday the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent federal agency, announced that it had issued five new safety alerts that provide general aviation pilots with strategies for ...

Reducing GA fatalities is a top priority of the FAA and the FAA's goal is to reduce the GA fatal accident rate by 10 percent over a 10- year period. Similar to commercial aviation, the FAA is ...

In a recent thought-provoking column in AOPA Pilot, the magazine for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, columnist Bruce Landsberg asked readers if some accidents could be prevented by ...

General aviation is a broad category that has to be broken down to answer whether small airplanes are safe, says Capt. John Cox. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight ...

In the same report, the FAA listed 74 fatal general aviation accidents in 2024. On average, there are dozens of GA accidents every year, whereas commercial air accidents are so rare that each one ...

The general aviation fatal accident rate per 100,000 flight hours of 1.05, meanwhile, was the lowest ever recorded. The FAA had set a safety goal for 2013 of a rate of 1.06.

That’s confirmed by the NTSB’s general aviation accident dashboard, which shows accident rates dropping between 2012 and 2021 ...

Highlighting the growing frustration aviation officials face in their quest to improve general aviation safety, accident statistics released this week remained virtually unchanged from 2011 to ...

General aviation has also seen a downturn in accidents in the last ten years, although this trend is flattening out. In any case, flying remains one of the safest modes of transportation in the world.

In the data released Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration, there were 11.3 deadly general aviation accidents per one million flight hours during the fiscal year ending last September ...

Idaho’s Division of Aeronautics, in its Idaho Aviation Accident Score Card, found faulty aeronautic decision-making was the common thread for most of the state’s 22 general-aviation accidents ...

From 2012 to 2021, the NTSB issued findings for 11,739 general aviation accidents. In 81% of the cases, investigators identified personnel issues as a factor.