If you look at the stats (e.g. the Nall report on AOPA&#x27;s website), the fatal accidents mainly boil down to two categories: pushing the weather, and low altitude stall&#x2F;spins, and both of these are mostly down to the pilot.<p>So if you remove the &quot;accident waiting to happen&quot; category of pilots, the fatal accident rate will likely be much lower. I&#x27;ve heard it said that GA has a similar accident rate to riding motorbikes, which is another activity where the risk mostly depends on the rider.<p>The type of pilot who is most dangerous is the type-A business owner who feels they have to get to their meeting no matter what the weather. Unfortunately these are the people who will have $250k in their pocket and want to use a plane for transportation. Perhaps the only solution is to have self-flying planes, similar to google&#x27;s cars. (And of course, they would need to be hacker-proof!)