From: "wj18001900" <swferris@sbcglobal.net>
To: <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:49 AM
Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Fatal Stall/Spin Accidents, and
other Aircraft Accidents
>I have read many official reports over the years about fatal stall/spin
>type accidents (and other aircraft accidents), and I find it interesting
>that since the United States government started collecting data on aircraft
>accidents many years ago, commercial rated &/or airline pilots, who when
>piloting large air transport aircraft have excellent safety records, yet
>when they fly on their own time in small general aviation aircraft, they as
>a group appear to have one of the highest accident rates for fatal
>stall/spin type accidents, and other types of aircraft accidents. How can
>this be possible, seeing as they have such a high level of experience over
>many years, in different weather conditions, during day and night flying,
>and in many different types of aircraft. It doesn't make sense that the
>most well trained, and safest (when piloting air transport aircraft) pilots
>have some of the worst safety records over all. Why has this been
>happening? How can these accidents be avoided / eliminated, if they happen
>to such well trained professional pilots?
>
>
I have heard talk amongst different groups of flyers about how the people in
some other groups don't know what they're doing, but have never seen these
"official reports".
Can you post some of the URL's to these reports?
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