Originally Posted by
Fuji Abound
Is that right?
Yup, see the recent GASCo 29 year UK fatal accident statistics review....
25% LoC VFR
16% Low flying / aeros
12% CFIT
12% Forced Landing
8% Loc IMC
6% mid-air
5% ground collision
4% airframe failure
4% low approach
3% medical or suicide
5% undetermined
(I've only got a draft to hand, so if you have a final version, the numbers may be very slightly different, but not much.)
So 33% definitely attributable to LoC, and when you analyse them the vast majority were low level. Odds are that a proportion of the 16% low flying and aeros involve some form of low level LoC also.
From that, I'd say that LoC - usually low level, is probably 3-4 times as regular a killer as CFIT.
G