The COVID-19 pandemic affected nearly every sector of the aviation industry in member states of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in 2020, with the number of fatal accidents and fatalities near the annual minimum recorded during the previous decade, EASA says.
In its Annual Safety Review 2021, released earlier in August, EASA said that commercial air transport (CAT) airlines and non-commercial complex (NCC) business airplanes recorded no fatal accidents in 2020. From 2010 through 2019, CAT airlines recorded between zero and two fatal accidents a year, with associated fatalities ranging from zero to 150, the safety review said. Data showed that NCC business operations recorded no more than one fatal accident in each of the 10 previous years, with associated fatalities never higher than four.
CAT helicopters were involved in one fatal crash in 2020, compared with …
