Night flying can be just as safe as flying in the daytime-but it isn't. Although accidents are more likely to occur during the daytime, according to the AOPA Air Safety Foundation's 2007 Nail Report, accidents at night (and in IMC, for that matter) are more likely to be fatal. "Only 19.2 percent of daytime accidents resulted in fatalities, but over one-third (34.6 percent) of all night accidents were fatal." Meanwhile, the same report states, "At night, nearly half of the accidents in VMC conditions were fatal (45.0 percent), compared to nearly three-fourths of night IMC accidents (74.1 percent).
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