The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) plans to conduct a “focused analysis” to understand why the rate of serious incidents involving commercial air transport (CAT) airplanes (maximum takeoff weight of more than 5,700 kg/12,560 lb) operated by carriers from EASA member states (MS) increased dramatically in 2016 from the previous year. In recently releasing its Preliminary Safety Review — 2017, EASA said the rate of serious incidents was 16 per 1 million flights in 2016, which is an increase of 77.8 percent from the nine serious incidents per million flights reported for 2015. The accident rate, however, declined 43 percent to three accidents per million flights, the agency said.
In 2016, EASA member state CAT operations suffered 18 accidents — one fatal — and 101 serious incidents. In 2015, EASA carriers recorded 26 accidents and 58 serious incidents. The 101 serious incidents last year are the most since 2010 and 2011, when there were 94 and 93, respectively. Th…
