Dec 9, 2024 · A forum for discussion about aviation incidents and accidents. Please include the date location, and aircraft type in the title to avoid duplicate threads.

Jul 21, 2010 · I think most aircraft accidents are by low time or poorly trained pilots and this applys to the military pilots as well, although when I was in , lots of accidents, and many many were mechanical failures, catching fire, blowing up in air, failures on take off, tanker collisions, etc.

Jun 7, 2008 · I used the NTSB accident database, for the period from January 1 2010 to December 1 2016. I computed a fleet size for each aircraft based on the January 1 2017 FAA registration database, computed the annual number of accidents, then divided the number of accidents by the fleet size to get the fleet rate.

Jun 7, 2008 · As most of you are aware, I do a lot of Homebuilt accident statistical analyses, using the NTSB accident database. As part of that, I occasionally use the same processes to look at particular production-type aircraft. The ongoing discussions …

Jan 25, 2011 · Does anyone know what the safety record of Velocity Aircraft is?? Specifically the XL and TXL models.

Jun 7, 2008 · Now show us when most of the homebuilt accidents occurred. That would be in the first 50 hours of time when the aircraft is in the testing phase. If you remove those the accident rate is vastly lower! About 3% of new homebuilts suffer an accident during the first 40 hours. Beyond that, it...

Nov 18, 2019 · “NTSB officials added that there have been 79 aircraft accidents in California in 2023, with 17 of those accidents being fatalities, including in Van Nuys, Murrieta and Big Bear.”

Jul 21, 2010 · What was the most recent accident that the FAA/NTSB contributed to an exhaust system, and how about a simple non-turbo charged accident? Honest inspection is important but true accidents caused by lacking of exhaust system maintenance must be …

Mar 4, 2020 · Its overall rate of loss-of-power accidents is about half that of homebuilts. Major factor is that non-certified engines are involved in almost half of the homebuilt accidents. For the 172s, about 25% of the loss-of-power accidents had undetermined causes, vs. 30% of the homebuilts. 10% were related to carb ice, vice 7% of the homebuilts.

Apr 1, 2007 · The heavy moisture collision with temperatures well below freezing, exacerbated by the rapidly rising terrain and turbulence, presented a clearly challenging situation. The danger certainly should have been apparent to an instrument rated pilot in a substantial aircraft, but he apparently flew blithely into the maw relying on the autopilot.