1.   At least five service personnel with ties to southwest Ohio have died in military aviation accidents over the last month.

2.   At the time, it was the worst aviation accident in history.

3.   Agency officials also cautioned that there are too few aviation accidents to make rankings meaningful.

4.   By law, the National Transportation Safety Board, which handles all aviation accidents, is forbidden to play cockpit tapes for anyone except parties in the investigation.

5.   Civilian aviation accidents, especially major crashes, frequently result in lawsuits.

6.   Classifying military aviation accidents.

7.   D espite the flaws in the system, Congress has never held hearings on the adequacy of the procedures used by the military to investigate or prevent aviation accidents.

8.   For this reason, Gore and other commissioners say the goal of their recommendations is to reduce the already low aviation accident rate by five-fold.

9.   In each major aviation accident, one of the five members takes charge of the inquiry on a rotating basis.

10.   In the past, there have been several aviation accidents in the area.