Each year the safety data for airline travel aboard commercial aircraft weighing more than 12,500 pounds just keeps getting better in the United States according to the International Air Transport Association. There hasn’t been a major U.S. airline accident in years. Worth noting is that last weekend’s AtlasAir Boeing 767 crash near Houston that claimed the lives of the three crewmembers aboard would not be counted in these IATA statistics because Atlas does not carry passengers.
IATA Releases 2018 Airline Safety Performance
Key Takeaways:
- Global air travel in 2018 was safer than the five-year average despite an increase in total accidents and fatalities compared to the exceptionally safe year of 2017.
- The 2018 accident rate stood at 1.35 per one million flights (one accident every 740,000 flights), facilitating 4.3 billion safe passenger journeys.
- Sub-Saharan Africa achieved its third consecutive year without jet hull losses or fatalities, significantly improving its accident rate and being the only region to see an overall decline from 2017.
- IATA is actively enhancing safety with initiatives like "Turbulence Aware," a new platform for sharing real-time turbulence reports globally.
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