Preliminary 2017 Data
No passenger jets were involved in fatal airline crashes last year, according to preliminary data compiled by the Aviation Safety Network (ASN), an independent organization affiliated with Flight Safety Foundation.
ASN data showed that 10 fatal accidents occurred in 2017 that involved five turboprop passenger airplanes and five cargo flights. Those 10 accidents resulted in the deaths of 44 passengers and crewmembers and 35 people on the ground, ASN said.
The organization said 2017 was “the safest year ever, both by the number of fatal accidents as well as in terms of fatalities.” Dec. 31 marked the 398th day without a fatal passenger jet accident, ASN added, noting that the most recent was the Nov. 26, 2016, crash of a LaMia Avro RJ85 near Medellín, Colombia, that killed 71 of the 77 people in the airplane.
ASN calculated that, considering expected worldwide air traffic of 36.8 million flights, the fatal accident rate is about one accident …
