Accidents
2018 GA Fatal Accidents Increase; Air Taxis Decline
NTSB reports that the number of fatalities from civil aviation accidents increased from 347 in 2017 to 393 in 2018,

U.S. civil aviation accident fatalities increased from 347 in 2017 to 393 in 2018, according to preliminary statistics released last week by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Last year saw the nation’s first airline passenger fatality since 2009, when a passenger was killed on a Southwest airliner that suffered an engine failure.