Australian commercial air transport operations recorded 15 accidents in 2016, including one fatal accident that resulted in one fatality, the Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) says.
In its annual report, Aviation Occurrence Statistics, 2007 to 2016,1 issued in mid-January, the ATSB said the 15 commercial air transport accidents were among a total of nearly 230 aircraft accidents in Australia in 2016.
Twenty-one fatalities were reported in the Australian aviation industry in 2016 — the lowest number ever recorded by the ATSB, the agency said; in addition to the single fatality in commercial aviation, 10 fatalities were recorded in both the general aviation and recreational aviation categories.
The report said 291 aircraft were involved in serious incidents — incidents defined as having a high probability of an accident.
The absence of fatal accidents in 2016 in high capacity regular public transport (RPT) operations and low capacity RPT operati…
