In a September 23 letter to the National Transportation Safety Board, 21 general aviation associations wrote to voice their displeasure with the panel’s apparent role in a recent NBC Nightly News report on an aircraft accident that portrayed personal flying as a highly risky activity. The groups are urging the NTSB to “publicly convey that general aviation is one of the safest modes of transportation in the United States.”
Aviation Groups Urge NTSB to Tell the Whole Story on GA Safety
Key Takeaways:
- Twenty-one general aviation (GA) associations wrote to the NTSB, voicing displeasure with the panel's apparent role in an NBC news report that inaccurately portrayed personal flying as a high-risk activity.
- The GA groups urged the NTSB to publicly convey that general aviation is one of the safest modes of transportation, stressing the agency's responsibility to provide balanced safety information to media outlets.
- They noted that while the NBC report used NTSB statistics (e.g., loss of control as the top cause), it failed to mention GA's overall improving safety record, including the lowest fatal accident rate ever recorded in 2014.
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