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roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks agoDepends on your definition of crash. If you mean it starts in the air, some occurred on the ground. If you click through to the GA tab on the NTSB stats it breaks them down and you can see standing and taxi accidents. Unfortunately it’s a total from 2008-2022, but for those 15 years 457 were in taxi and 245 were standing.
spujb@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
ooh i didn’t see that tab. and yep most of the accidents had something to do with being in the air and so even by my non-expert definition i am wrong. big sad that this was one of my most upvoted comments and it was factually incorrect 😭
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
It’s understandable. When I got into the aviation industry I was very surprised to learn how many GA accidents and fatalities occurred in a year. Unless it’s Kobe, or newsworthy for some other reason, it usually doesn’t get past the local news.
spujb@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
i think also the data is juuuust a bit more inaccessible? like i remember i was able to fact check the derailment in a few seconds. anyway. regards! ☕️☀️