Air Fatalities
Monthly data
Air Fatalities | Jul-14 | Jul-15 |
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General Aviation Fatalities | 66 | 25 |
Percent change from same month previous year | + 69.2% | - 62.1% |
Air Carrier and Air Taxi Fatalities | 0 | 2 |
NOTES: General Aviation fatalities include private aviation operations and excludes Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 121 (Air Carriers), 129 (Foreign), 135 (On-Demand), and Non-U.S./Commercial operations. Air Carriers include scheduled and non-scheduled commercial passenger flights as well as cargo flights under FAR Part 121 and Air Taxis include smaller aircraft for commuter and on-demand operations included under FAR Part 135.
General aviation data in this dataset does not include the 154 persons killed aboard a foreign-registered aircraft operated by Gol Airlines, which collided with a U.S.-registered general aviation aircraft over Brazil in September 2006 .
SOURCE: National Transportation Safety Board, Aviation: Accident Database & Synopses, available at http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/index.aspx as of August 2015.