Ten fatal airliner accidents occurred in 2017, none of them involving passenger jets, according to data compiled by the Aviation Safety Network (ASN), an independent organization affiliated with Flight Safety Foundation.
Data released Monday show that the 10 fatal accidents resulted in the deaths of 44 passengers and crewmembers and 35 people on the ground.
“This makes 2017 the safest year ever, both by the number of fatal accidents as well as in terms of fatalities,” ASN said, noting that as of Dec. 31, a record period of 398 days had passed without a passenger jet accident. The most recent accident involving a passenger jet was the Nov. 26, 2016, crash of a LaMia Avro RJ85 near Medellín, Colombia, that killed 71 of the 77 passengers and crew.
Of the 10 fatal accidents in 2017, five involved turboprop-powered passenger airplanes, and five involved cargo flights. ASN calculated that, considering expected worldwide air traffic of 36.8 million flights, the fatal accident rate…
