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Issue 35: November/December 1986
NTSB Report Reveals Flaws in General Aviation Aircraa Design
The United States National Transportation Safety Board has found that hundreds of people are being killed and injured unnecessarily each year in light aircraft by not using the shoulder harness component of their seat belt.
Through the years from 1972 to 1981 there were 36,500 accidents in the US involving General Aviation aircraft. Of the 76,600 occupants of these aircraft, more than 12,500 (16%) were killed and more than 6,600 (9%) were seriously injured. The NTSB had found that many of the fatal and serious injuries could have been prevented if only the occupants had been provided with more effective protection systems.
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