The world’s airlines registered “an exceptional year” in safety, with fewer fatalities than recorded in any other year in the industry’s history, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) says.
But in its Annual Safety Review 2018, released last week, EASA also said fatal accidents in January 2018 emphasized that “a regulator never rests on its laurels.” According to EASA data, fatalities in the January accidents alone exceeded those recorded in all of 2017.
Those accidents, as well as fatal accidents in EASA member states in 2017 in non-commercial and specialized flight operations, “demo…
