Virtually all aviation safety data sharing initiatives that have been in place for some time, such as the International Air Transport Association Global Safety Information Center, focus on commercial air transport operations. They do not collect, analyze or publish safety data for business aviation. The same is true of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which every year prepares and analyzes safety data related only to commercial operations involving transport category, turbine-powered airplanes engaged in scheduled and non-scheduled passenger and cargo operations.
Business aircraft typically fly into and out of more operationally demanding airports, and take off from and land on shorter runways, including many that lack instrument landing system or other precision approaches. The operational hazards are thus different from those of scheduled commercial aviation. The nature and frequency of operations are different. Crew composition in business aircraft operations a…
