http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/07/pf/2...jobs/index.htm


"People who fly for a living also face danger daily, earning them the number-two spot on the BLS list. The highest rates of fatalities for commercial pilots come not from the big airlines, who log thousands of daily flights mostly without incident, but among the more modest levels of the flying industry such as crop dusters and bush pilots.


Occupational aircraft-related fatalities jumped last year to 215, a 44 percent increase, after falling in 2005 to 149. The fatality rate was 87.8 per 100,000, second only to the fishing industry.


Weather often plays a factor with clouds and fog-hindering navigation. The single biggest cause of fatalities involves what the BLS calls "flying into terrain, under speed." Flights may start out in clear skies and end in low visibility - and disaster."



The only person I know that was killed in the aviation industry was the DE for my PPL. Six months after my PPL, he got killed in a midair with a C152 while testing a helicopter instrument applicant at Fulton Co Airport in GA. As I remember it the applicant was a Dentist and the DE was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. I thought it was a horrible waste of lives at the time. The people in the C152 was a CFI and his student.


Anyway, I still wouldn't worry about it though. We're all going to the same place eventually anyway.


Hopefully Steve Fosset hasn't bitten the dust yet...