Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) accidents in the commercial air transport industry declined to an all-time low in 2015 when one CFIT crash was recorded, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said in its Safety Report 2015.
The report, issued in April, also noted a decrease in 2015 in the percentage of accidents involving loss of control–in flight (LOC-I) and runway excursions.
The report expands upon IATA’s preliminary data, made public earlier this year (ASW, 3/16, p. 47), which showed that the world’s commercial airlines experienced 68 accidents, including four fatal accidents, in 2015.
The April data showed that, for the period from 2011 through 2015, the accident rate was 0.16 CFIT accidents per million flight sectors; broken down, the CFIT accident rate was 0.04 per million sectors for jets and 0.72 for turboprops, the report said. On average, 6.8 CFIT accidents were recorded each year for the period from 2010 through 2014 (Figure 1).
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