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• Approximately 80 percent of all plane crashes occur shortly before or after takeoff or landing due to human error or mechanical failures.
• According to an aviation accident survey of nearly 2,200 plane crashes from 1950 to 2004, the number one cause of aviation accidents is pilot error, which results in 45 percent of accidents. Undetermined causes: 33 percent. Mechanical failure: 13 percent.
• In 2005, there were a total of 1,764 aviation accidents in the United States that resulted in 600 fatalities. Low-level maneuvering of an aircraft was the leading cause of fatal aviation accidents from 1998 to 2004.
• In 2004, more than 70 percent of all plane crashes that ended in serious injury or fatality occurred during a personal flight. General aviation accidents occur more frequently than airline or business aviation accidents.
• The most recent statistics on midair collisions has shown a steady decline. In 2004, there were 10 midair accidents resulting in 10 fatalities compared to 11 collisions in 2003 with 23 deaths.

Some of the most common causes of aviation accidents include:

• pilot error,
• negligence by a flight service employee or air traffic controller,
• faulty equipment or mechanical failure,
• weather,
• and sabotage.
• Violations of Federal Aviation Administration safety regulations and aviation law are also a frequent cause of aviation accidents.

Brazil Plane Crash May Have Been Caused by Human Error

October 3 , 2006 -

Miscommunication among air traffic controllers is likely to be the cause of the most devastating plane crash in the history of Brazil that took the lives of 155 passengers last week.

GOL Airline flight 1907 (a Boeing 737-800) collided into a small twin-engine private plane mid-air causing the larger plane to plummet vertically into a densely forested area, according to Brazilian Air Force.

While the actual cause of the crash is still under investigation, Brazilian media has reported that the accident could be blamed on the air traffic control problem. Both aircrafts flew into the air traffic control region that was operated from two different towers.

It has been speculated that the controllers in the separate towers failed to communicate to each other that the planes would be sharing the same airspace. Instead both pilots were assigned similar altitudes, which could have directly resulted in the mid-air collision.

All 155 passengers aboard the Boeing were killed while the American pilot of the small aircraft was able to make an emergency landing.

It will be at least three months before Brazilian officials determine the exact cause of the crash.

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