Safety Publications/Articles

2008 Joseph T. Nall Report

2007 saw an increase in the number of fixed-wing general aviation accidents (1,385, up 6.3 percent from the prior year) but a continued decrease in both the number of fatal accidents (252, down 5.6 percent) and the number of fatalities (449, down 9.7 percent). Maneuvering flight remained the leading cause of fatalities with 51, 20.2 percent of all fatal accidents, but the number of fatal accidents in descent and approach dropped from 37 (13.9 percent) to 22 (8.7%). Click here to download the entire report (PDF file — 2,520KB).

Nall Report Archive

• 2007 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 2006 (PDF file—2,330KB)
• 2006 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 2005 (PDF file—2,758KB)
• 2005 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 2004 (PDF file—995KB)
• 2004 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 2003 (PDF file—588KB)
• 2003 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 2002 (PDF file—368KB)
• 2002 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 2001 (PDF file—693KB)
• 2001 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 2000 (PDF file—394KB)
• 2000 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 1999 (PDF file—671KB)
• 1999 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 1998 (HTML file—92KB)
• 1998 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 1997 (PDF file—1,868KB)
• 1997 Nall Report—Accident Trends and Factors for 1996 (PDF file—2,290KB)

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Updated Friday, January 11, 2008