A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Curt Epstein

As business aviation flight hours have increased over the past year, the number of industry accidents also rose slightly, according to statistics released last week by business aviation safety analyst Robert E. Breiling Associates. During the first nine months of this year, the U.S. business jet and turboprop fleet experienced 34 accidents, including five fatal that resulted in 14 deaths. There were 31 crashes, four of which claimed 23 lives, in the same period last year. The business jet segment saw six accidents in the first nine months of the year, including one that killed the two-person flight crew, while there were also six crashes for the first three quarters of last year (none fatal). In the turboprop category, the number of accidents rose by three over last year to 28 in the first nine months of the year. Part 135 turboprop operations saw the worst deterioration, with the number of accidents more than doubling to 16 so far in 2010. The number of fatal turboprop crashes remained static at four but they were less costly in human life, causing 12 fatalities. The first three quarters of 2009 saw 23 accident fatalities in this segment, though this included a PC-12 crash that killed all 14 people aboard the turboprop single.

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Business Aviation Accidents Rise Slightly from 2009 

As business aviation flight hours have increased over the past year, the number of industry accidents also rose slightly, according to statistics released 

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