AIN Digs into Part 135 Accident Data
AIN Digs into Part 135 Accident Data

When aviation people speak of Part 135 operations, many of us naturally assume a business jet or at least turboprop is involved. So when the NTSB released 2011 accident data a few weeks ago ("Total accidents involving on-demand Part 135 operations climbed from 31 in 2010 to 50 in 2011, while fatal accidents rose from six to 16 and fatalities rose from 17 to 41."), the numbers appeared quite unambiguously to refer to turbine-powered airplanes.