Commanche down in San Antonio, Dec 1, 2019

[RyanShort1]

Sounds like they knew they had an emergency, were talking to tower with a declared engine out situation and were headed to SAT in an emergency. Sad.

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2019/12/02/plane-crash-reported-in-north-side-neighborhood/

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

To be fair, this particular market (GA in the US) is the safest on God's green earth, with much lower regulatory burden than some other markets. So we do get something for our troubles..

I can’t say that I follow that. It strikes me that if we are a market with a lower regulatory burden and lower accident rates, that would argue that regulation does _not_ help improve safety (though would not prove it by any means, that would require more data and analysis).

But maybe “our troubles” refers to something other than the costs of regulation? Or maybe it was slightly misstated and what was intended was we have a higher level of regulation than many countries and consequently better safety?

In truth I suspect there are many other confounding variables which make any correlation of regulatory levels and aviation safety between nations a difficult means for arguing a causal relationship between the two.