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WASHINGTON — Accidents on charter flights killed 66 people in the United States last year, the highest total since 2000, transportation safety officials said Thursday. The air-charter category includes medical helicopters, tour flights and air taxis.
That toll compared with 43 air-charter deaths in 2007, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The safety board’s figures showed that general aviation remained the deadliest form of air travel, accounting for 495 of the 564 fatalities in U.S. civil aviation last year. There were 1,559 accidents last year in general aviation, which includes a variety of personal and business flights not run by commercial airlines.
