This is newsworthy not because a small twin went down but because the business using it was working on the Ohio tragedy.<p>There are more than 4 fatal general aviation accidents per week.<p>Over the past 2 decades, here have been roughly 2 fatalities from 1.25 fatal accidents for every 100,000 flight hours in general aviation, with 260 accidents per year. There are roughly 0.05 fatalities from 0.005 fatal accidents for every 100,000 flight hours on airlines, with an average of 1 accident per year:<p><a href="https://www.bts.gov/content/us-general-aviationa-safety-data" rel="nofollow">https://www.bts.gov/content/us-general-aviationa-safety-data</a><p><a href="https://www.bts.gov/content/us-air-carrier-safety-data" rel="nofollow">https://www.bts.gov/content/us-air-carrier-safety-data</a><p>Comparatively, there have been an average of 1.2 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles, or (generously assuming 60 mph) 0.07 fatalities per 100,000 hours.<p>Taking a general aviation flight is 30x riskier than driving a car for an hour. Taking an airline flight is a little safer than driving for an hour.<p>I'd not run these numbers before, I knew it was higher but not that high. It'll make me think twice when our partner business offers to fly me out to work on one of their machines that's several hours away. I'm specifically thinking of the 20 hours of driving I did last week from Michigan to Tennessee; I think there's a ratio of drunk drivers on rural roads at night versus daytime highway miles that's not captured, but it's not what I thought it was!
"All five people killed in the accident worked for consulting firm CTEH, which provides response services, including “environmental data collection, and management, GIS, safety, incident management, industrial hygiene, toxicology and human health consulting for the public and private sectors.”"<p>Damn, conspiracy theorist will have a field day now.
From another article:<p>"Emergency services were alerted to the crash at 12:02 p.m., the Little Rock Police Department said in a Facebook post.. There was a line of storms moving through the area around the same time, according to CNN Weather. There were no warnings alerted for the storms, but the National Weather Service issued a special statement calling for gusts up to 50 mph. The highest gust at the airport was 46 mph, recorded at 12:02 p.m."<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/us/arkansas-plane-crash-five-killed/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/us/arkansas-plane-crash-five-...</a><p>It looks like the crash was because of the storms and that if the pilot had been more patient there wouldn't have been this loss of life.
It's comforting that even a British publication refers to this as a tragedy, but neither our president nor administration will even acknowledge it.