According to the National Transportation Safety Board, there were 1,316 civil aviation accidents (passenger and cargo flights) in the United States in 2017 with 346 fatalities. Over 93 percent of the aviation accidents in the United States in 2017 involved general aviation aircraft, which include gliders, powered parachutes, rotorcraft, and corporate business jets. The FAA reports that almost 25 percent of fatal general aviation aircraft accidents from 2012-2016 involved amateur-built and experimental aircraft. The International Civil Aviation Organization reports that from 2008 to 2018 most commercial aviation accidents involved runway safety. Over that ten-year period, only 8 accidents involved loss of control inflight or controlled flight into terrain; all other accidents involved runway/tarmac safety. The FAA further reports that in 2016 there were 108 helicopter accidents in the United States, with 17 of those accidents being fatal.
