Mixed Results

Accidents involving Western-built commercial jets worldwide decreased 17 percent in 2012 — 30 crashes (Table 1) compared with 36 recorded in 2011 — but the 281 on-board fatalities recorded in 2012 represented a 61 percent increase, according to data from Boeing Commercial Airplanes.^1,2

In its annual Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents, published in August, Boeing’s data showed that five of the 30 accidents involved fatalities. Of these, two crashes resulted in on-board and external fatalities and one crash killed everyone in the airplane and no one on the ground. In two other crashes, everyone in the airplane survived, but fatalities were recorded on the ground.

Table 1 — 2012 Airplane Accidents, Worldwide Commercial Jet Fleet

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