The View From IATA
The Africa region had considerably fewer accidents in 2011 compared with 2010, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) had fewer accidents as well. Africa’s rate of hull losses was reduced from 7.41 per million flights to 3.27 per million flights in the same period. The data are found in the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 2011 Aviation Safety Performance report.1
For Western-built jets worldwide, the 2011 rate of hull losses per million flights was 0.37 in 2011, compared with 0.61 in 20102. That represented a year-over-year improvement of 39 percent. Unusually, the hull loss rate was higher for IATA member airlines (0.41 per million flights) than for the industry as a whole (0.37 per million flights) in 2011.
“According to the 2011 industry rate, if you were to take a flight every day, odds are you could go more than 7,…
