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The aviation industry maintained its improved safety record in
2007: passenger fatalities fell by 20% on 2006. Both passenger
fatalities and the number of fatal accidents in 2007 were well below
long term trends.
During 2007, there were 631 passenger fatalities, 159 fewer than
in 2006. The figure is below the average for the decade of 718.9, and
is a significant improvement on the 1990s average of 954.4 passenger
fatalities a year.
There were 15 fatal aviation accidents in 2007 involving
passengers. Whilst this was two more than in 2006 it maintains the
long term improvement in the aviation industry's safety record. The
average number of fatal accidents since 2000 is 16.0, and in the 1990s
the average was 24.2.
The findings in the Annual Aviation Safety Report from Ascend, the
world's leading provider of information and consultancy to the global
aerospace industry, measure accidents on revenue passenger flights.
The worst accident in 2007 was in Sao Paulo, Brazil in July when a
TAM Airbus A320 overran the runway on landing and struck an office
building. All 181 passengers and six crew on board plus a further 12
people on the ground were killed. There were four further accidents in
2007 that resulted in a high loss of life. Combined these five
accidents accounted for 517 passenger fatalities, about 80% of the
total passenger fatalities for 2007.
Paul Hayes, Director, Ascend, says: "Aviation's improving safety
record over recent years is a real success story for the industry. In
the face of rapid growth, new aircraft, new operators and emerging
markets standards have not been allowed to slip. This underlines just
how seriously the entire industry takes its responsibilities. However,
work is far from complete and the challenge for aviation is to keep
setting itself even higher standards for safety and to keep
improving."
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