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More than half of all fatal accidents involving U.S. private pilots on general aviation (GA) flights in single-engine airplanes involved faulty aeronautical decision-making (ADM) practices, according to a study by researchers from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.1 Their analysis covered a recent 29-year period.