The number of aviation accidents and fatalities involving commercial air transport aircraft, as well as the associated accident rate, declined in 2016 to 75 accidents, 182 fatalities and a global accident rate of 2.1 per million departures (Figure 1), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) says.1
Figure 1 — Accidents, Scheduled Commercial Air Transport, 2012–2016
ICAO = International Civil Aviation Organization
Source: ICAO Safety Report, 2017 Edition
The accident rate, which declined 25 percent from the 2015 rate of 2.8 accidents per million dep…
