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Show Air Transports 1 Make Fine Record Miscellaneous aircraft operators flew 691,951 miles per fatal acci-' acci-' dent, and 1,012,612 miles per passenger pas-senger fatality during the first six months of 1936, establishing new high marks in both of these classifications, classi-fications, Eugene L. Vidal, director direc-tor of air commerce, announced recently. Miscellaneous operators, whose activities are covered by these statistics sta-tistics of the bureau of air commerce, com-merce, department of commerce, include flying services, schools, specialists in photographic flying, crop dusting and the like, and private pri-vate flyers. The number of miles flown per accident for the first six months of 1936 was 52,620. Causes of the 789 accidents which occurred in miscellaneous flying during the period included: Personnel errors, 49.12 per cent; power plant failures, 15.80 per cent; airplane failures, 10.38 per cent; weather, 9.07 per cent; dark-I dark-I ness, 0.84 per cent; airport, terrain ! or water, 11.30 per cent; other causes, 3.11 per efent; underter-I underter-I mined and doubtful, 0.38 per cent. |