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Figure 36 provides details of the phase of flight where microlight accidents occur. As with other GA domains,
landing is the most dangerous flight phase with 35% of the accidents. A further 23% occurred during take‑off
and 21% during the en route phase.
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Figure 36:
Microlight accidents per phase of flight
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
Standing
Taxi
Take-o
En route
Manoeuvring
Approach
Landing
Unknown
Occurrence Categories General
Aviation Microlight
In order to assist in the identification of particular safety issues, one or multiple occurrence categories were as‑
signed to GA Microlight accidents involving EASA MS operators and this information is shown in Table 34. This
was done using the CICTT occurrence categories, which are listed in Appendix 1.
The occurrence categories reveal that LOC‑I, LALT, AMAN and CTOL are the most common causes of microlight
fatal accidents. As of non‑fatal accidents are concerned SCF‑NP, SCF‑PP and LOC‑G score the highest. Further anal‑
ysis will be carried out in this Sector as part of the development of the Sector Safety Risk Portfolios.