General aviation advocacy groups were quick to respond today to an extensive report in Wednesday's USA Today, "Unfit for flight," which is critical of GA safety.AOPA called the article "deeply flawed," and said AOPA staffers had spoken to reporter Thomas Frank for an hour last week, but the article doesn't mention AOPA's contention that GA safety is making progress. "The article leads one to believe that general aviation is an unsafe form of transportation," said AOPA, "…[but] according to the National Transportation Safety Board, the number of fatalities has declined by over 40 percent since the early 1990s." GAMA also released a statement Wednesday morning, labeling the story "sensationalistic."
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