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National Transportation Statistics

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Bus Occupant Safety Data

KEY: N = data do not exist, NA = not applicable; R = revised.

aBus includes school, transit, and intercity buses.

Prohibited Items Intercepted at Airport Screening Checkpoints

KEY:  N = data do not exist; R = revised.

a All data for 2002, except enplanements, are for April through December.

b Data for 2008 are up to Aug. 8, 2008 with the exception of Firearms and Incendiaries. TSA has stopped the collection of data on all prohibited items except for Firearms and Incendiaries as of Aug. 8, 2008.

c TSA has only published Firearms data from 2010. 

Number of Pilot-Reported Near Midair Collisions (NMAC) by Degree of Hazard

KEY: R = revised, U = data are not available.

a A situation where collision avoidance was due to chance, rather than an act on the part of the pilot.  Less than 100 feet of aircraft separation would be considered critical.

b An incident that would probably have resulted in a collision if no action had been taken by either pilot.  Less than 500 feet would usually be required in this case.

c When direction and altitude would have made a midair collision improbable regardless of evasive action taken.

d No...

U.S. General Aviation Safety Data

KEY: P = preliminary; R = revised; U = data are not available.

a U.S. registered civil aircraft not operated under 14 CFR 121 or 14 CFR 135.  Accidents on foreign soil and in foreign waters are excluded.  Suicide, sabotage, and stolen/unauthorized cases included in accidents, fatalities and rate computation in this table are: 1985 (11 accidents, 6 fatal accidents); 1990 (4, 1); 1991 (8, 5); 1992 (2, 1); 1993 (5, 4); 1994 (3, 2); 1995 (10, 6); 1996 (4, 0); 1997 (5, 2); 1998 (6, 4); 1999 (3, 1); 2000 (7, 7); 2001 (3, 1); 2002 (7, 6); 2003 (4, 3...

U.S. On-Demand Air Taxi Safety Data

KEY: P = preliminary; R = revised; U = data are not available.

a Air carriers operating under 14 CFR 135, nonscheduled service. Accidents on foreign soil and in foreign waters are excluded.

b Rates are computed by dividing the number of Total fatalities, Total seriously injured persons, Total accidents, and Total accidents, fatal by the number of Flight hours.