I'm going to go out on a fairly stout limb with this statement: No pilot ever plans to become an accident statistic. Instead, we all approach every flight in the firm belief it will be successful or we don't fly. Too often, of course, events conspire against us-or we screw up-and the flight's outcome isn't as we planned. So...what are some of those events? What can we do to minimize the risk of becoming a statistic? One answer lies in the NTSB's voluminous accident investigation reports and its own statistics, which help highlight how and why accidents occur.
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