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2009 Aviation Safety Performance
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In February 2010, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) published safety statistics for 2009.
Summary
The following is extracted from the communique to IATA members which accompanied the report:
The year’s accident rate for Western-built jet aircraft is the second lowest in aviation history.
The 2009 global accident rate (measured in hull losses per million flights of Western-built jet aircraft) was 0.71. That is equal to one accident for every 1.4 million flights. This is a significant improvement on the 0.81 rate recorded in 2008 (one accident per 1.2 million flights). The 2009 rate was the second lowest in aviation history, just above the 2006 rate of 0.65. Compared to 10 years ago, the accident rate has been cut 36% from the rate recorded in 2000.
In absolute numbers, 2009 saw the following results:
- 2.3 billion people flew safely on 35 million flights (27 million jet, 8 million turboprop)
- 19 accidents involving western built jet aircraft compared to 22 in 2008
- 90 accidents (all aircraft types, Eastern and Western built) compared to 109 in 2008
- 18 fatal accidents (all aircraft types) compared to 23 in 2008
- 685 fatalities compared to 502 in 2008
There are significant regional differences in the accident rate:
- North Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) had zero western-built jet hull losses in 2009
- North America (0.41) and Europe (0.45) performed better than the global average of 0.71
- Asia-Pacific’s accident rate worsened to 0.86 in 2009 (compared to 0.58 in 2008) with three accidents involving carriers from the region.
- The Middle East and North Africa region saw its accident rate rise to 3.32 (compared to 1.89 in 2008) with four accidents involving carriers from the region.
- Africa had an accident rate of 9.94, significantly higher than their 2008 rate of 2.12. Africa has once again the worst rate of the world. There were five Western-built jet hull losses with African carriers in 2009. African carriers are 2% of global traffic, but account for 26% of global western-built jet hull losses.
An analysis of the causes of the 2009 accidents focuses on three main areas:
- Runway excursions continue to be a challenge and accounted for 26% of all accidents in 2009. However, the total number of runway excursions dropped by 18% (23 vs 28 in 2008).
- Ground damage accounted for 10% of all accidents in 2009.
- While runway excursions and ground damage were the main categories of accidents, pilot handling was noted as a contributing factor in 30% of all accidents.
To view the full list of statistics, click here