COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) — Two people were killed when a single-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff late Saturday from a small airport east of Atlanta, authorities said
Police said responding officers found the aircraft and the two victims in woods just north of the runway in Newton County, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of downtown Atlanta.
The crash is being investigated by the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board
Where you getting the as safe as a motorcycle number? Aviation is usually very safe compared to automotive, and motorcycles are on the dangerous end of automotive.
Edit: looks like general aviation is 27x more deadly per mile than general driving, and about in the same ball park per mile as motorcycles. That’s a lot higher than I thought.
https://pilotinstitute.com/is-flying-safer-than-driving/
I pasted the links elsewhere, but it’s important to differentiate between general aviation (small planes, crop dusters, personal pilots, etc) and commercial flying.
Commercial flying is EXTREMELY safe, ridiculously so. The safety culture is amazing. General aviation does it’s best, but at the end of the day people just aren’t as responsible in small planes.