‘Disparity’

Five fatal accidents and 17 hull losses¹ were recorded involving jets in worldwide commercial aviation in 2018, marking a turnaround from the historically low number of fatal accidents and hull losses in 2017, Airbus said in its annual analysis of commercial aviation accidents (Figure 1).²

Comparable Airbus data for 2017 included one fatal accident and six hull losses.

The fatal accident rate increased from 0.03 per 1 million flight cycles in 2017 to 0.14 per 1 million cycles in 2018, the report said, and the hull loss rate increased from 0.17 per million flight cycles in 2017 to 0.49 per million cycles in 2018.