{"id":14003,"date":"2019-10-15T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=14003"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:23:38","slug":"aopa-air-safety-institute-releases-28th-joseph-t-nall-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/aviation-education\/aopa-air-safety-institute-releases-28th-joseph-t-nall-report\/%20","title":{"rendered":"AOPA Air Safety Institute Releases 28th Joseph T. Nall Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Air Safety Institute (ASI) has released the 28th Joseph T. Nall Report<\/a> for 2016 which reports that general aviation (GA) fatal accidents continued the previous year’s decline even as hours flown marked three years of steady growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1,214 total accidents for the year rose from the\nprevious annual figure of 1,173, while flight hours grew to 24.64 million from\nthe previous year\u2019s estimate of 23.98 million hours flown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the 195 fatal accidents in 2016 were down\nfrom 221 in 2015, an 11.7-percent decrease. Preliminary figures for 2017\nsuggest another annual decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Air Safety Institute Executive Director Richard\nMcSpadden, the fatal-accident reduction for general aviation appeared to lend\nsupport to the effectiveness of numerous industry initiatives whose goal is to\nreduce those mishaps. As measured by the decline in fatal crashes, the results\nsuggest that 2016 was one of the safest years for general aviation on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese numbers continue to demonstrate historic performance\nin aviation safety,\u201d said McSpadden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nall Report analyzes data from the most recent year for\nwhich probable causes have been determined for at least 80 percent of\naccidents. The Nall report covers airplanes with maximum rated gross takeoff\nweights of 12,500 pounds or less and helicopters of all sizes, accounting for\n99 percent of GA flight activity. Flight time of the GA fleet is estimated\nusing the FAA\u2019s annual General Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey, which\nbreaks down aircraft activity by category and class, and purpose of flight, among\nother characteristics. Excluded from the analysis are gliders, weight-shift\ncontrol aircraft, powered parachutes, gyrocopters, and lighter-than-air crafts\nof all types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fixed-wing non-commercial operations, the rates of both\nfatal and total pilot-related accidents declined, and accidents attributed to\nweather declined sharply. Still, pilot-related accident causes continued as a\nstubbornly significant factor in non-commercial fixed-wing aircraft accidents,\nat 775 accidents, although the 72.9 percent rate indicated a decline from\n2015\u2019s roughly 74 percent. Of the 1,036 accidents in the fixed-wing\nnon-commercial category, 185 (17.9 percent) were found to be mechanical in\nnature. Mechanical causes were noted in 16 percent of the category\u2019s accidents in\n2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the Nall Report\u2019s informative graphs dramatically\nportrays the sharp decline registered in the weather-accident trend, which has\nhad its ups and downs between 2007 and 2015. In 2016, however, weather\naccidents\u2014a topic of major emphasis in the industry\u2019s safety awareness\ncampaign\u2014fell off sharply year-over-year from 39 total accidents to a 10-year\nlow of 23, and from 30 fatal weather accidents to 12. As usual, most were\nattributable to visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological\nconditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other safety categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 64 total commercial fixed-wing GA accidents, of\nwhich 19 were fatal, marking a decrease in total accidents but a 10-year high\nin the fatal category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 40 accidents that occurred during Part 137 agricultural\naircraft operations were the most in a commercial fixed-wing category, with\nmaneuvering implicated in half the mishaps. Thirteen Part 137 accidents were\nfatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 79 non-commercial GA helicopter accident total of 2016\nestablished a 10-year low. The 17.7-percent fatal-accident rate (14 accidents)\nincreased slightly from 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 35 commercial helicopter accidents, of which\nthree were fatal. The fatal accidents and their rate marked the lowest in 10\nyears, according to the report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Report gets a new format<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 28th Nall Report introduces a new all-digital web-based\ninteractive format. To modernize content, the 28th Nall Report features six\nnavigation buttons at the bottom of the introduction page, each taking the\nreader to the designated section. For example, the Non-commercial Fixed Wing\nbutton takes users to that section of the report which features drop-down\naccordion buttons that expand on significant categories. The modernized layout\nallows users to easily locate their areas of interest and quickly search for\ninformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air Safety Institute, funded by donations to the AOPA\nFoundation, provides free educational resources and supports initiatives that\nimprove general aviation safety and grow the pilot population including award-winning\nonline courses, in-person seminars, flight instructor renewal courses, and\naccident analysis\u2014all created with the goal of helping all pilots fly more\nsafely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nall Report honors the memory of Joseph T. Nall, a\nNational Transportation Safety Board member who died as a passenger in an\nairplane accident in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Air Safety Institute (ASI) has released the 28th Joseph T. Nall Report for 2016 which reports that general aviation (GA) fatal accidents continued the previous year’s decline even as hours flown marked three years of steady growth. The 1,214 total accidents for the year rose from the previous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14004,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14003\/revisions\/14004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}