Commercial air transport (CAT) airlines1 registered in European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) member states were involved in 15 accidents — none of them fatal — in 2017, according to EASA data.
In its Annual Safety Review 2018, EASA noted that the CAT airline accidents recorded in 2017 matched the number recorded in 2016; one of the 2016 crashes was a fatal accident (Figure 1).2
Figure 1 — Fatal Accidents, Nonfatal Accidents and Serious Incidents for CAT Airlines, 2007–2017
CAT = commercial air transport
Source: European Aviation Safety Age…
