3 times the accident rate in OZ compared to the USA?
According to the NTSB report, the US GA accident rate for 2013 was just over 60/ million flight hours. For the period 2004-2013 the rate was more or less level (2004 rate approx the same as the 2013 rate).
In Australia, the ATSB report shows the following (apologies, I am not able to insert the table in any better manner):
"Table 10: All general aviation occurrences (VH- and foreign registered aircraft), 2005 to
2014
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Number of aircraft involved
Incidents 1,546 1,654 1,597 1,608 1,795 1,552 1,503 1,407 1,399 1,256
Serious incidents 57 70 93 103 95 132 137 159 186 118
Serious injury accidents 4 8 7 16 8 15 14 17 6 15
Fatal accidents 16 19 12 22 16 13 16 20 15 11
Total accidents 118 91 117 126 117 127 116 112 90 149
Number of people involved
Serious injuries 5 13 9 23 10 19 23 20 8 20
Fatalities 21 34 21 34 16 16 28 29 24 17
Rate of aircraft involved
Accidents per million departures 52.2 50.3 65.3 64.4 63.6 63.7 62.3 63.4 49.5 N/A
Fatal accidents per million
departures 7.1 10.5 6.7 11.2 8.7 6.5 8.6 11.3 8.2 N/A
Accidents per million hours 100.9 80.2 96.7 100.4 93.3 101.8 97 101.5 78 N/A
Fatal accidents per million hours 13.7 16.7 9.9 17.5 12.8 10.4 13.4 18.1 13 N/A"
Due to differing definitions (somewhat) between the NTSB and the ATSB, this is as close a comparison as I could find. Perhaps someone else can do better as I do not claim to be a statistician.
Does not look like OZ has an accident rate 3 times that of the USA though.
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