Private airplanes account for most crashes and casualties in the United States, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Private, or general aviation, flights are 82 times riskier than commercial airline trips and represent the overwhelming majority of aviation crashes and casualties in the United States, they reported in the April 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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