As a company, Diamond has one of the most remarkable safety records in all of light aircraft general aviation. In fact, the company's record is so good that it's hard to make much sense of it because so few accidents have occurred. When we swept the NTSB records for accidents involving the DA40, we found only 10 in the U.S., two of which were fatal. Of the 10 reported accidents, one was a bird strike on a wing in which the flight instructor landed safely, and one involved a safe return and landing after the pilot noticed higher-than-normal engine RPM-it turned out the prop governor had been incorrectly assembled.
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