Commercial aviation suffered 30 major accidents in 2018, including events involving commercial jet airliners, turboprops, business jets and two piston aircraft.
Foundation Fellow Jim Burin gave an excellent presentation at the 71st annual International Air Safety Summit in November in Seattle on the number of major accidents that had occurred through the first 10 1/2 months of 2018. You can read a summary of Jim’s presentation in AeroSafety World. In the final weeks of the year, three more major business jet accidents and one turboprop accident occurred.
According to the Aviation Safety Network, 15 commercial passenger airliner fatal accidents resulting in 556 fatalities were reported in 2018, a downturn from 2017, when 10 fatal ac…
