The onshore resource sector recorded no aircraft accidents in the first three months of 2023, according to data tabulated by Flight Safety Foundation’s Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) Program.
This result highlights the continuing downward trend in aviation accidents and fatalities in the sector since the establishment of the BARS Program in 2010.
More than 12 accidents were reported in each of the first six years of the BARS Program, but every year since 2017, fewer than seven accidents occurred. In 2022, there were two fatal accidents and two non-fatal accidents.
Since 2017, 26 people have died in aviation accidents in the onshore resources sector, compared with 247 fatalities between 2010 and 2016.
David Anderson, managing director of Flight Safety Foundation’s BARS Program, said the accident-free first quarter of 2023 was a positive result.
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