Low-performance air taxi airplanes did not share the accident-reduction success of their higher-performance counterparts, a new study says.
The accident rate in the U.S. air taxi sector declined 50 percent from 2004 to 2018, almost entirely because of a reduction in crashes involving medium- and high-performance airplanes, according to a study by researchers from the United States and Germany.
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