Accident stats for the past 20 years, as of June 24,2002

  We see that CA has a higher fatal %, but over the past ten
years the fatality rate has decreased 39% in CA vs. 25% elsewhere.

  We also see why the Cessna 172 and taildraggers are considered
so safe.  Faster, complex planes provide more capability, but at
a cost.  This is assuming that every plane is flown the same
number of hours per year (not a good assumption).  The data does 
not have any meaning without hours flown, however, with regards 
to safety.  Also, there is merit to the metric of fatalities
per mile instead of per hour or per aircraft.  And fatal accidents
may have 1 or 400 people actually killed...hmmm...lots of gray


Model	Fatal	Total	%	CA83-92	CA83-92	CA93-02	CA93-02
	US	US		%fatal	Total   %fatal	Total


Cessna	2715	16,766	16	18	1123	19	653
Piper	1916	9033	21	27	550	27	277
Beech	913	3185	28	34	228	37	136
Mooney	220	785	28	40	62	27	29

172  	561	3856	14	17	256	15	178
182	322	1708	18	23	127	24	75

140	20	277	7	4	22	0	16
120	8	87	9	28	7	0	4

PiperJ	67	355	18	0	13	28	7
PiperJ3	43	220	19	0	8	25	4 

Aero7	33	238	13	0	11	0	10 	
Aero7AC	18	161	11	0	8	0	10

Taylorc	38	251	15	21	14	33	6


Accidents:

National			California	
83-92	83-92	93-03	93-03	82-93	82-93	93-03	93-03	
total	%fatal	total	%fatal	total	%fatal	total	%fatal

25155	19	18208	19	2812	22	1721	23

California has 36,382 of the 325,000 registered (11%)

So the accident and fatality rate nationwide dropped 25% 
over the two decades.

In California, the accident and fatality rate dropped 39%.