BTS | Table 1 - Fatal Accidents and Deaths by Type of Aviation Operation: 1988

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Table 1
Fatal Accidents and Deaths by Type of Aviation Operation: 1988–1997

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Type of operation	Fatal accidents		Deaths
Type of operation	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
General aviation	4,386	98	8,046	82
Commercial aviation	85	2	1,756	18
Total	4,471	100	9,802	100

SOURCE: U.S. General Accounting Office, Aviation Safety: Safer Skies Initiative has Taken Initial Steps to Reduce Accident Rates by 2007 (Washington, DC: 2000).

Table 1 Fatal Accidents and Deaths by Type of Aviation Operation: 1988–1997

Table 1
Fatal Accidents and Deaths by Type of Aviation Operation: 1988–1997