Downward trends persisted in commercial aviation accidents in 2017, with an all-accident rate of 1.08 per million flights and a “fatality risk” of 0.09, meaning that a passenger would have to take one flight every day for 6,033 years before experiencing a fatal accident, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) says.
IATA safety data, made public Thursday, showed that the accident rate for commercial airline operations fell from 1.68 in 2016. It was slightly more than half the rate of 2.01 per million flights for the five-year period from 2012 through 2016.
Nineteen passengers and crewmembers were killed in six fatal commercial airline accidents in 2017, down from the previous year’s totals of nine fatal accidents and 202 fatalities and the five-year average of 10.8 accidents and 315 fatalities per year. None of the six fatal accidents in 2017 involved a passenger jet. Five fatal accidents involved turboprop airplanes and one involved a cargo jet
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