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Show Private Flying Becoming Safer Piper Aircraft reports that private flying is becoming safer. ALTHOUGH hours flown in the past decade-of private and business aircraft--doubled, the accident rate declined by a healthy sixteen percent. That private and business pilots are experiencing fewer accidents is good news at a time when air traffic congestion conges-tion is becoming a serious problem for the first time in more and more U.S. communities. com-munities. BETTER instruments, .navigational facilities and better aircraft have produced the improvement. If it is to continue, more new airports will have to be opened in the coming years and technological tech-nological progress continued. |