One commercial air transport airplane from a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) member state was involved in a fatal accident in 2014 — a Swiftair-operated Air Algerie McDonnell Douglas MD-83 that crashed in Mali on July 24, killing all 116 passengers and crew, according to EASA’s Annual Safety Review, 2014 (Figure 1).1
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