What that nice little study failed to mention is that half of all Americans that hold Pilot certificates, live in Alaska. They also fly more at any given time do to well you have to in Alaska if you are going to get around. Yea guys get killed flying in Alaska, they die in cars and in bath tubs too. Every now and again Mr. Brown Bear or Mr. Moose kills an Alaskan too. Then lets see there are the Doctors and the Hospitals, you can go on and on about it, but life is a risk, you do your best to mananage the risk, but if you want a risk free life, then say in you bed and don't move. Sure the flying in Alaska is more demanding than say flying in Florida. You could say that the flying in the Amazon would be just as hazardous, you don't here much about it because, there are not the numbers of pilots in the population in Brazil like in the Sate of Alaska. I found flying in Alaska not to be all that much different, sure to take the time to do some extra planning and you stay with in the FAR's and the companies Operations Spec's and Ops Manuals. And most of all be willing to say No, I will not do that. Hell I rather fly in Alaska that in the lower 48 or any were else for that matter. I always thought that being a Crab fisherman was the dangerous thing to do. But I guess the CDC likes to eat crab and maybe since 9/11 what do we need with Light Aircraft ?