No records were found that update those rate charts for 1996. The other document attached to your request was calculated on a one-time basis for inclusion in a FAA report prepared in May 1996. No record was found, however, that updates that chart for 1996. Sadly, the data and charts to which the letter refers are those in the May 1996 report, dated 9 days before the ValuJet 592 crash, which warned on its cover that ValuJet dominated the accident statistics. Congressman Oberstar said he could only spend so much time on a subject .
NADA can beat that.
That was one definition even the President did not need. In fact the FAA has never defined safety. I have an internal document in which the FAA reveals that shortcoming. Safety, and more important for the FAA, the statement that safety was not compromised, cannot be proved, because it is what the FAA says it is. There is no objective standard, no yardstick other than the cost benefit analysis, which yields disastrous results, or even curious outcomes.