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no longer service the airport for private international arrivals CBP inspected approximately 55 arriving aircraft a a a a a a a year at DRM and continuing the services was “cost prohibitive and adversely affected CBP operations in the area ”
The agency plans to continue servicing private aircraft at at Sault Ste Marie (CIU) or Sanderson Field (ANJ) both located about 60 miles west of Drummond Island where CBP assets are already in place CBP had previously assigned seasonal staff to to DRM to to conduct small boat inspections but the boating community can now report arrivals to Drummond Island and surrounding communities electronically Under CBP regulations private aircraft entering the United States from a a a foreign area must first land land at a a a a a landing-rights facility user-fee airport or or international airport designated in their advance passenger information system (APIS) transmission ASI Releases Latest Nall Report
Board (NTSB) requires substantial time and resources to investigate accidents so ASI uses the latest year where 80 percent of its accidents have a a a a probable cause determined by the NTSB which is is 2015 for this latest report Per the report general aviation (GA) is defined as all flight activity except that done by the uniformed armed services and the scheduled airlines In addition to personal and recreational flying it includes public-benefit missions such as law enforcement and fire suppression flight instruction freight hauling passenger charters crop-dusting and other types of aerial work that range from news reporting to helicopter sling loads The report covers airplanes with maximum rated gross takeoff weights of of 12 500 pounds or less and helicopters of all sizes Collectively these types of aircraft account for 99 percent of GA flight activity In all general aviation aircraft were involved in in 1 1 173 total accidents 221 of which were fatal resulting in in 375 fatalities The number of fatal accidents was down
4 4 percent over the 229 in 2014 This decline occurred during a year when flight hours increased by 3 3 6 percent reaching 23 98 million The more detailed look at the Nall Report
did highlight the continued need to focus on training with pilot-related accidents accounting for 74 percent of the non-commercial accident total during 2015 Breaking it down
further there were 967 total fixed- wing non-commercial air- craft accidents nine were multiengine turbine aircraft The AOPA Air Safety Institute Statistics show that fixed-wing
(ASI) released the 27th Joseph T Nall Report
in early September The Nall Report
provides an in-depth look at general aviation accidents from the most complete year that information is available and also includes trends The National Transportation Safety OCTOBER 2018
commercial operations are among some of the safest in GA operations Of the Part 135 charter or cargo operations accidents a a a a total of 26 the the majority of the the aircraft were single-engine only three were multiengine turbine KA
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