After a year without onboard fatalities, data show four fatal commercial jet accidents in 2016.
Three fatal accidents involving the Western-built worldwide commercial jet fleet1 killed 138 passengers and crewmembers — and a fourth crash killed one person on the ground — in 2016, one year after no onboard fatalities were reported, according to data from Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
IATA data show many measures of safety improved in 2021, including the lack of runway excursion accidents.
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Runway excursions, loss of control‒in flight and controlled flight into terrain accounted for nearly 30 percent of all airliner accidents in 2021, according to Flight Safety Foundation’s…
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The pandemic did not make general aviation any less safe than it had been before, a study of U.S. accidents says.
