There has been considerable consternation in the aviation media recently about the lack of progress in improving the general aviation accident rate. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman recently expressed her frustration that the general aviation accident rate in the United States has essentially plateaued at around 1,500 accidents every year, emphasizing that the board sees the same types of accidents over and over again and that many of the accidents are “entirely preventable.”
Hersman proposed three steps to reduce the GA accident rate:
