US corporate aviation suffered no fatal accidents last year, according to statistics from aviation consultancy Robert Breiling Associates, making 2003 one of the safest years. By comparison, in 2002 US corporate aviation flew 6.89 million hours (up from 6.51 million hours in 2001) and suffered eight accidents, two of them fatal, says Breiling. This set the fatal accident rate for the corporate/executive market 0.029 per 100,000 flying hours.
Source: Flight International
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