There are typically fewer business jet accidents each year than turboprop mishaps and that distinction didn’t change last year. Unchanged also, for the second year in a row, there were no fatal accidents involving Part 91 corporate jets flown by salaried pilots. In fact, professionally flown Part 91 business jets were involved in only one non-fatal accident last year. Also last year no one was killed in accidents involving owner-flown Part 91 jet operations. Additionally, the fractional segment continued its long-standing record of no fatal accidents.
However, while the number of turboprop accidents and fatalities decreased last year over the 2003 figures, jet accidents last year increased, in both the total number of accidents and fatalities, over 2003 totals. All of last year’s fatal jet accidents, killing 16 crewmembers and three passengers, involved Part 135 operators. This is the second consecutive year in which business jet fatalities increased. Last year jet accidents killed 19 people versus 15 in 2003. There were nine fatalities in seven crashes involving jets in 2002.
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