Show AIRPLANE ACCIDENTS I In the early days of flying if If our our memory serves us correctly most persons Involved In aIrplane accIdents were kIlled outright At least a very large percentage were It was a little surprising therefore to read lead a recent government report which states that during the last three years only one out of seven persons involved in aIrplane crashes was fatally hurt More surprising stIll is the statement that of all those involved involved ed In air accIdents 60 per cent received no injuries at all About 15 per cent were kIlled 10 per cent were serIOusly inured inJured and 15 per per cent were only slightly hurt Causes of accidents have been studied resulting in the con con- elusion elusion that about 57 P per r cent were due to errors by pilots structural tural failures in planes caused more than 9 per cent motor faIlures 17 per cent while miscellaneous and doubtful cauSes ac count for the remainder ID wring the year three period covered by the report there waS waSa wasa a total of 2994 accidents recorded involvIng persons of whom 1413 were kIlled were severely inured inJured 1366 received I minor injuries and were unhurt k I I |