Approximately 61 percent of all commercial aviation accidents in 2013 occurred during the approach and landing phases of flight, according to an analysis of harmonized International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) safety data. The analysis was included in the recently released ICAO Safety Report 2014 Edition. Forty-three percent of 103 accidents considered using the harmonized accident criteria occurred during the landing phase, followed by 18 percent during approach and 12 percent during takeoff (Figure 1). The other 27 percent occurred during the en route, standing1 and taxi phases.
In September 2010, IATA, ICAO, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the European Commission signed a memorandum of understanding on a global safety information exchange (GSIE), the objective of which is to identify information that can be exchanged between the parties to enhance risk reduction activities in aviation safety, ac…
