Do We REALLY Have ALL The Facts?
Each year, the AOPA Air Safety Foundation publishes a
statistical report of general aviation accidents. This is called
the Nall Report. It's named after Joseph P. Nall, an NTSB Board
member who died as a passenger in an airplane crash in Caracas,
Venezuela, in 1989. Regrettably, based upon the paucity of new
information contained in each annual Nall Report, I'm likely one of
only a dozen or so people who actually read the 2010 edition
cover-to-cover. I did so this year in the vain hope of discovering
something other than the positive spin on our chronic fatal
accident rate that its editors and statisticians so dutifully apply
year after year. Instead, it was the same findings, rationals, and
defense of an industry that should be ashamed of