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IATA confirms more accidents but fewer fatalities in 2008

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News 

February 28, 2009

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Airlines suffered 109 accidents during 2008, compared to 100 in 2007, while the number of fatal accidents increased from 20 to 23 during the last two years, reports IATA.

However, fatalities dropped from 692 in 2007 to 502 in 2008. This translates into a 56% improvement in the fatality rate from 0.23 fatalities per million passengers in 2007 to 0.13 per million last year.

According to IATA, the global accident rate, measured in hull losses per million flights, stood at 0.81 or one accident for every 1.2 million flights, slightly worse than in 2007 when the rate was 0.75 or one accident for every 1.3 million flights.

Runway excursions accounted for 25% of all accidents in 2008. IATA is launching this year a Runway Safety Toolkit, which it has developed with Flight Safety Foundation. The toolkit will also be incorporated with IATA’s Global Safety Information Centre to be launched later this year.  The organization said that ground damage accounted for 17% of all accidents.

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