Quote Originally Posted by WLIU View Post
Thanks for the breakdown!

So I will suggest that the assertion that "a high percentage are related to horse play" is false. I will suggest that the aviation equivalent of "horseplay" translates to the "maneuvering at low altitude" category in Ron's article. Which looks like 3 of 54 accidents or under 6%.
That's 6% of fatal accidents. In 2011, "Maneuvering at Low Altitude" was involved with only 2.6% of the total. And 2011 was a pretty good year... over the 14 years my database covers, 4.7% of the total accidents involve it. Accidents due to stick-and-rudder mistakes happen about eight times more often.

Ron Wanttaja