[Butch Cassidy Slept Here]

when you account for "collateral damage" that number is just a bit higher.

If I understand Phx's post correctly the reason why the deaths in Southwest's wreck at Chicago--Midway are not counted on Southwest's record as "fatalities" is because the decedants were not passengers or crew on the plane. As I recall the media accounts the aircraft crashed-through a fence and went out onto one of the roads bordering the airport. A motorist crashed into the plane, or vice versa. Accordingly, the deaths were one or more occupants of the car.

I'm sure the NTSB has a reason for keeping statistics this way. Still, it does strike me as misleading. The car-plane collission clearly would not have happened if the plane had not found its way onto that road.