- Author
- National Transportation Safety Board
- Title
- Alcohol and Other Drug Involement in Fatal General Aviation Accidents, 1983 Through 1988. Safety Study.
- Coporate
- National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC
- Report
- NTSB/SS-92/03; Notation 5841, October 14, 1992, 170 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- alcohols | medications | aircraft accidents
- Identifiers
- aircraft pilots
- Abstract
- This study examines alcohol involvement in fatal general aviation accidents that occurred from 1983 through 1988. Despite a downward trend in alcohol-involved general aviation accidents that were fatal to the pilot during the 1983 through 1988 period, about 6 percent of the fatally injured pilots in the study were flying while impaired. The mean blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of the alcohol-positive pilots was 0.15 percent, nearly four times the 0.04-percent BAC offense level established by current Federal Aviation Administration regulations. The safety issues discussed in this report are the need for comprehensive State laws pertaining to alcohol and drug use in general aviation, and the need to prevent pilots from flying while impaired by alcohol or other drugs. Recommendations concerning these issues were made to the Federal Aviation Administration, the States, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association, the National Agricultural Aviation Association, the National Air Transportation Association, the National Association of Flight Instructors, and the National Association of State Aviation Officals.