DESPITE the twin Malaysia Airlines disasters, 2014 was one of the safest years on record in terms of aviation accidents, according to data released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
The 2014 global jet accident rate (measured in hull losses per 1 million flights) was 0.23, the equivalent of one accident for every 4.4 million flights. This was an improvement over 2013 when the global hull loss rate stood at 0.41 (an average of one accident every 2.4 million flights), and also an improvement over the five-year rate (2009-2013) of 0.58 hull loss accidents per million flights jet.
There were 12 fatal accidents involving all aircraft types in 2014, with 641 fatalities, compared with an average of 19 fatal accidents and 517 fatalities per year in the five-year period (2009-2013).
‘While aviation safety was in the headlines in 2014, the data shows that flying continues to improve its safety performance,’ said Tony Tyler, IATA’s director general and CEO.
More than 3.3 billion people flew safely on 38 million flights in 2014.
Future safety gains, says IATA, will come increasingly from analyzing data from the 38 million flights that operate safely every year, rather than just the handful of flights where something goes wrong.
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