Geneva-based Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO) compiles statistics on aviation accidents of aircraft capable of carrying more than six passengers, not including helicopters, balloons, or fighter airplanes. Statistics show that there is were an average of over 140 aviation accidents per year over the last five years (2006-2010). Aviation accidents that result in injuries to passengers and pilots are most common during the following parts of the flight:

•taxi, load, unload and parked
•takeoff and initial climb
•cruising
•descent
•initial approach
•final approach and landing

Flying on commercial airliners is extraordinarily safe these days with your chances of being in a commercial airplane accident being in the 1 in 7 million range. To put it in prospective, you can take a round-trip flight everyday for the next 8,500 years without injury according to probability. Small plane accidents are more risky in that there are over roughly one thousand small place accidents each year. The most common causes of commercial and small-place aviation accidents are

• pilot error
• improper landing
• engine failure
• in-flight icing
• in-flight instrument failure
• mid-air collisions
• flight instructor error
• negligent maintenance

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If you are involved in an accident please call us toll free at 866-484-6992, fill out the online form to the right, or visit one of our three locations in center city Philadelphia, Lancaster or Marlton. If you live outside of Pennsylvania and New Jersey feel free to contact the American Justice Network, a personal injury litigation network that leverages decades of experience and relationships with attorneys to facilitate a connection with the best attorney for you.