iPad Apps Help Cut Fatal Crashes of Private Planes to New Lows
- Improvements come after enhancements in training, technology
- Industry group and FAA data show decline in accidents, deaths
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Fatalities in crashes of small private planes have fallen to the lowest levels in decades as industry and government work to address an area of aviation that has lagged behind jetliners in dramatic safety improvements.
While aviation crash analysts caution that it’s still too early to say for sure that the data represents a long-term trend, the declining number of fatal crashes and deaths are a sign of possible progress.