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flights - 73.9% - with 138, or 77.1%, fatal. Private pilots
accounted for 43.7% of the accident total - 437 total.
In contrast, only 118 accidents befell air-transportrated pilots - 11.8% - for 14.5% of the fatal accidents.
Commercial pilots accounted for 26.4% of the accidents
and 34% of the fatal accidents.
The good news deep in
the report is the total and
fatal accidents in 2019: 465
PROGRESS IS
total, a new low, and 18 fatal
accidents - also a new low.
APPARENT, BUT
Clearly, improvements
MUCH REMAINS
in training and technology
TO BE DONE.
are having the desired
AND FROM ALL
effect, even though the
ASSESSMENTS,
fatal accident rate for
THE WEAK LINK
pilot-related accidents
dropped slightly to 3.6% of
IN THE EFFORT
the total and 0.47% of the
TO REDUCE
pilot-related fatal crashes.
GENERAL
Landings overwhelmingly
AVIATION
dominated the total pilotACCIDENTS
related accidents, with 255
CONTINUES TO
of the total accidents.
BE A MATTER
Accident investigations
have shown that distraction,
OF THE HUMAN
task saturation, and
ELEMENT.
channelized attention can all
lead to a loss of situational
awareness to airspeed states
or trends. Several accidents have shown that insidious airspeed
decay happens, and, lacking timely correction, unrecoverable
rates of descent can develop into loss of control.
Thirty-three of the noncommercial fixed-wing accidents
stemmed from fuel-management issues, and four of the
fatal accidents in this category. The total represented a
steep decline from the 56 total fuel-management accidents
recorded in 2019. Four of the total produced fatalities,
down from seven in 2018.
Weather, always a factor worth examining, accounted
for seven of the pilot-related crashes involving
noncommercial fixed-wing aircraft but six of the fatal
accidents. And 243 of the total accidents occurred in
visual meteorological conditions - that's 95.3% of the
total. Conversely, night VMC accounted for just 10 of the
accidents in this category.
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