The NTSB has introduced a new tool to help visualize information about recent general aviation accidents. GA crashes make up almost 80 percent of crashes, this is primarily due to the fact there is a high volume of GA flyers in the sky at a time, as opposed to private or commercial aviation.
The new General Aviation Accident Dashboard can help the user visualize trends, findings and safety recommendations for GA accidents in the last decade. Reports and statistics can be filtered out by year, location, phase of flight and defining event.
Dashboard showing 2021 data
The user can look at NTSB findings broken into the categories like personnel issues, aircraft, environmental issues, organizational issues and undetermined. Safety recommendations are also organized by the year issued and addressee category.
A preset filter is also in place for commonly searched findings like aircraft control and weather.
“The NTSB has always been a data-driven agency and the proof is in our safety recommendations — every one of which is evidence-based,” NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said. “Similarly, we want to maximize the number of stakeholders and researchers who can draw safety lessons from our accident data. That’s exactly what we hope this dashboard will accomplish.”
The NTSB has also released a series of video tutorials to demonstrate how to navigate the dashboard and how various filters can show different results.
The dashboard was created as a part of the NTSB’s effort to enhance how users can access agency reports, findings and safety recommendations. Congress has charged the NTSB with maintaining the nation’s civil aviation accident database.
This dashboard can help pilots to better understand the findings the NTSB has collected on general aviation accidents and help them to visualize what factors are leading to unsafe air travel.
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