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UK studying how to improve safety record of business jets

Business jets make up a small percentage of UK commercial air traffic–3.5 percent–but a recent analysis of air traffic safety indicates that the rate of in

By Jennifer Harrington

July 5, 2007

Business jets make up a small percentage of UK commercial air traffic–3.5 percent–but a recent analysis of air traffic safety indicates that the rate of incidents and accidents among business jets is higher than among other types of commercial turbine aircraft flying in UK airspace.

According to Richard Schofield, head of customer affairs and safety at the UK’s
National Air Traffic Services (NATS), business jets were involved in nearly 16 percent of all level-bust incidents between January 2004 and the end of last year. During that time, according to Schofield, there were 1,260 level busts. “Of those, around 200 were business jets,” he said.

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