Joseph T. Nall Report - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
Joseph T. Nall Report - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
Joseph T. Nall Report - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
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Dedication<br />
<strong>Joseph</strong> T. <strong>Nall</strong><br />
The <strong>Joseph</strong> T. <strong>Nall</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
2000 is the AOPA Air Safety<br />
Foundation’s review of<br />
general aviation aircraft<br />
accidents that occurred<br />
during 1999. This report is<br />
dedicated to the memory of<br />
Joe <strong>Nall</strong>, an NTSB Board<br />
member who died as a<br />
passenger in an airplane<br />
accident in Caracas,<br />
Venezuela, in 1989.<br />
This is a preliminary report based on accident reports that<br />
were available from the NTSB by August 2000. At that<br />
time, 80.7 percent of their reports on the general aviation<br />
fixed-wing aircraft accidents that occurred during 1999 had<br />
been finalized. Why only 80.7 percent? Accident investigation<br />
takes a long time—sometimes up to three years. In an effort to provide<br />
the most current safety information to the pilot community as<br />
soon as possible, the AOPA Air Safety Foundation gathered data from<br />
the NTSB throughout the first eight months of 2000 <strong>and</strong> targeted<br />
this publication for the end of 2000. At that time, the NTSB had<br />
finalized only 62.5 percent of its reports on fatal accidents, along<br />
with 82.7 percent of the accidents with serious injuries, 84.7 percent<br />
of the accidents with only minor injuries, <strong>and</strong> 85.3 percent of those<br />
fortunate accidents in which no one was injured. These numbers,<br />
added together, give us the above-mentioned overall figure of 80.7<br />
percent of the accident reports being complete. The conclusions<br />
based on these preliminary reports usually do not change significantly<br />
when the final reports are complete, but you should<br />
be aware that the numbers might change.<br />
Only accidents involving fixed-wing general aviation aircraft<br />
weighing less than 12,500 pounds are included in this report.<br />
The AOPA Air Safety Foundation gratefully acknowledges the<br />
technical support <strong>and</strong> assistance of:<br />
National Transportation Safety Board<br />
Federal Aviation Administration<br />
<strong>Aircraft</strong> <strong>Owners</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pilots</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
Publisher: Bruce L<strong>and</strong>sberg<br />
Statistician: John Carson<br />
Writer: Don Arendt<br />
Editors: John Steuernagle, Kathleen Roy<br />
Production Coordinator: Kathleen Roy<br />
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© Copyright 2001<br />
AOPA Air Safety Foundation