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CAA Paper 2009/03: Business Jet Safety Research: A Statistical Review and Questionnaire Study of Safety Issues gives some helpful analysis, and is available online, here: CAA Paper 2009/03: Business Jet Safety Research: A Statistical Review and Questionnaire Study of Safety Issues | Publications | CAA
One paragraph states (and I had to re-type this because, unhelpfully, the downloadable document is copy protected):
The CAA does not hold data that allows the fatal accident rate for business jets to be broken down into individual operation types.
This might prompt the curious to ask how a regulator hopes to do its work when it cannot even analyse its industry effectively...
That aside, it goes on:
However, data supplied by [IBAC] revealed that there is a large variation for different types of business jet operation. Corporate operations achieved a fatal accident rate of 0.2 (per million hours flown) for the period 2003 to 2007, which is comparable to large western built aeroplanes, whereas air taxi operations, as a whole, had a far higher rate of 3.5 (per million hours flown).
The IBAC report is here:
http://www.ibac.org/Files/Safety/Bus...0Issue%207.pdf
The IBAC report breaks the community down like this:
2.4 Organization of the Community
Business Aircraft operations are classified into three (3) separate categories:
1. Business Aviation Commercial
Aircraft flown for business purposes by an operator having a commercial operating certificate
(generally on-demand charters).
2. Corporate
Non-commercial operations with professional crews employed to fly the aircraft.
3. Owner Operated
Aircraft flown for business purposes by the owner of the business.
and it goes on to say:
4.2 Accident Rate by Operator Type
Global data for the numbers of aircraft in each of the business aviation operational categories (commercial, corporate and owner-operated) proved difficult to obtain as few States collect this information. Similarly, flight hours by type of operation are not available. Due to the lack of
good exposure data, it was not possible to calculate, without some error, the rate of each category of operation. Additionally, the operational status of a single airframe may legally vary from flight to flight (i.e., an aircraft may be commercial on one flight and private on a flight made later
on the same day or vice versa).
Nevertheless, by applying US data relevant to the division between categories of operator, and by making the assumption that the division is relatively similar for the rest of the world, an estimate of the rate by operator type can be made. Given that the North American data represents approximately 67% of the global total, it is unlikely that the distortion generated by the assumption will be very large.
The percentage of flight hours based on FAA published statistical data for each of the three categories in the USA is as follows:
Commercial (Air Taxi) 30.4%
Corporate 55.3%
Owner-operated 14.3%
Two interesting tables are presented on page 7, which I can't copy quickly here, after which the data is analysed:
Analysis
The majority of business aircraft accidents occur in the commercial category, where operations are governed by commercial regulations (such as FAA Part 135 and JAR OPS 1). The next most frequent number of accidents occurs with aircraft flown by business persons. Accidents of corporate aircraft remain rare.
CAA doc here
So its a false rumor to suggest that there is a safety issue to drag us all private ops and AOC ops into the same costly highly regulated world as over regulation does not equal safety but purely equals the safety of the regulators jobs.
You have the wrong enemy!!!
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