Airlines may be in the doldrums, but one statistic is at least reason for rejoicing: accidents were down internationally last year to the second-lowest level in aviation history.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said yesterday the 2009 rate for accidents - defined as serious sufficient to write off the aircraft - was 0.71. This means that for all million flights, the accident rate was 0.71, or one accident per 1.4 million flights universal.
This is a important improvement of the 0.81 rate recorded in 2008 (one mishap for 1.2 million flights), IATA said. The 2009 rate was the second-lowest in aviation history, just over the 2006 rate of 0.65. Compared with 10 years ago, the mishap rate has been cut 36 percent from the rate recorded in 2000.
Steve Lott, representative for IATA North America, said from Washington, D.C., the figures take into account Western-built jets, which account for the huge majority of flights outside of Russia and China.
In those two countries, a navy of Ilyushin, Tupolev and other non-Western passenger planes still fly many routes. The rate for Eastern-built planes - including turboprops - is considerably higher, though it also dropped last year to 10.08 from 12.11 in 2008.
Lott cautioned that flights on Eastern-built planes account for merely 2.2 per cent of the world's total flights, so their rate goes up quickly when there is an accident.
Not all accidents engross fatalities, he noted. For example, a British Airways Boeing 777 crashed on landing at London Heathrow in 2008, but was close adequate to the ground that despite the plane being a total loss, no single died.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said yesterday the 2009 rate for accidents - defined as serious sufficient to write off the aircraft - was 0.71. This means that for all million flights, the accident rate was 0.71, or one accident per 1.4 million flights universal.
This is a important improvement of the 0.81 rate recorded in 2008 (one mishap for 1.2 million flights), IATA said. The 2009 rate was the second-lowest in aviation history, just over the 2006 rate of 0.65. Compared with 10 years ago, the mishap rate has been cut 36 percent from the rate recorded in 2000.
Steve Lott, representative for IATA North America, said from Washington, D.C., the figures take into account Western-built jets, which account for the huge majority of flights outside of Russia and China.
In those two countries, a navy of Ilyushin, Tupolev and other non-Western passenger planes still fly many routes. The rate for Eastern-built planes - including turboprops - is considerably higher, though it also dropped last year to 10.08 from 12.11 in 2008.
Lott cautioned that flights on Eastern-built planes account for merely 2.2 per cent of the world's total flights, so their rate goes up quickly when there is an accident.
Not all accidents engross fatalities, he noted. For example, a British Airways Boeing 777 crashed on landing at London Heathrow in 2008, but was close adequate to the ground that despite the plane being a total loss, no single died.
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