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.
EASA data show one EU-based airline was involved in a fatal accident in 2022; two people outside the airplane were killed.
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BARS data show three months without aviation accident in the onshore resource sector.
IATA saw declines in fatal commercial aviation accidents and fatality risk in 2022, an increase in total accidents and, over the decade, a 48 percent improvement in the accident rate.
