"GA Fatalities down 49 percent"
From Flight Safety Australia magazine, November-December 2003; p.11.
"Figures released by the ATSB show that Australia's already good overall aviation accident rate droppped significantly in the 10 years between 1993 and 2002, led by improvements in General Aviation Safety."
While I am not doubting the importance of ongoing improvement in standards, it is interesting that we have gone from "good and getting better" in December to "alarming" in a scant 4 months.