https://www.flyingmag.com/story/news/2018-us-aviation-fatailities/

The NTSB last week said its preliminary data showed U.S. civil aviation deaths in 2018 rose from the 347 reported in 2017 to 393 last year with most of those 2018 fatalities occurring in general aviation operations. General aviation was in fact responsible for 1,275 accidents in 2018 that included 381 of the fatalities, fully a 15 percent rise over the 331 people who lost their lives in 2017. These data pushed up the fatal accident rate in general aviation to 1.029 accidents per 100,000 flight hours, compared to 2017’s rate of 0.935.