Sad for this.
I am wondering: what's the data on how safe, or unsafe, "private" planes are, e.g. compared to commercial jets?
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You'll want the McSpadden report (formerly the Nall report) here [1]
Pay attention to the accidents per 100,000 hours in commercial vs non-commercial fixed wing. Commercial is about 10-40x safer.
[1] https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institut...
Note that here „commercial“ is commercial general aviation (so, not military and not scheduled airliners). Airliners are far safer still.
But commercial planes have a lot more passengers per plane
So in the end commercial planes have a higher death toll?
In order of safest to least safe: commercial jets, automobiles, general aviation aircraft, motorcycles, messing around with Jim.