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2004 Nall Report, ...Flying as Being Dangerous Profession; ...

  2004 Nall Report 
( http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/nall.html ). It shows that in 2003 total accidents rose by 2.5 percent, but flight hours increased by 0.8 percent when compared to the previous year. 
---79.4 percent of general aviation accidents were non-fatal 
---75.9 percent were pilot-related. 
---Takeoffs and landings accounting for more than 50 percent of all GA accidents. 
---From 1994 to 2003, the accident rate per 100,000 flight hours declined 25.3 percent 
---Fatal accident rate per 100,000 hours declined 24.7 percent.

2005 Nall Report, Historic low for aviation accidents in 2004, the ASF said. There were 6.7 percent fewer total accidents in 2004 than in 2003, and fatal accidents declined by 7.1 percent. Pilot error continues to top the list of accident causes. Nearly 25 percent of the 45 fatal weather-related accidents involved thunderstorms.

Flying as being Dangerous Profession
Only loggers are as likely as pilots to get killed on the job, according to a report released last Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Both professions had a fatality rate of 92.4 per 100,000 workers for 2004, the BLS said, ranking above fisheries workers (86.4 per 100,000), and structural iron and steel workers (47 per 100,000). A total of 109 pilots died on the job. Of those, 22 were flight crew for airlines and 87 were commercial pilots. The numbers were down slightly from the 2003 data, when 114 pilots died on the job.