The accident rate among private pilots was put at 7.01 for every 100,000 hours flown.

The number of hours flown by commuter planes grew to 2.4 million in 1993 from 1.3 million in 1978.

Pilots receive a higher rate of flight pay for hours flown during adverse weather or at night.

Expansion was rapid, as can be appreciated by reference to the number of hours flown annually.

Total sorties were 213 with total hours flown, 308.

Like automobiles that are scheduled for an oil change every 3,000 miles, aircraft maintenance is largely determined by hours flown.

They had a fatal accident rate of 1.45 per 100,000 hours flown, the lowest in 10 years.

Still, the number of crashes in relation to the hours flown out of Gardner Field was low.

So far in 1999 there have been fewer deaths, with more hours flown.

The hours flown exceeded those of any single month in squadron history by 750 hours.