NTSB said Thursday there were 56 so-called on-demand flight accidents in which 66 people were killed in 2008. That's the highest number of fatalities for such flights in eight years and an increase of 13 deaths over 2007. The on-demand accident rate per 100,000 flight hours of 1.52 remained virtually unchanged.
The nation suffered its deadliest air crash in seven years on Feb. 12 when a regional airliner tumbled out of control and onto a house near Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people.
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