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Despite Sept 11, last year was one of safest to fly: Report
Sydney, Oct 08: Despite the kamikaze hijack horror of September 11, last year was one of the safest on record for airline passengers, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia (CASA) reported today.
Sydney, Oct 08: Despite the kamikaze hijack horror of September 11, last year was one of the safest on record for airline passengers, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia (CASA) reported today.
Drawing from industry studies and independent surveys, CASA said 2001 saw a decline in both accident rates and passenger fatalities involving commercial airlines. It was also the best year for accident prevention in commercial air travel since 1992, CASA said.
The loss rate of aircraft per million flying hours declined from 0.59 in 200 to 0.54 in 2001, according to data gathered by the international air transport association. Casa said the number of passenger and crew fatalities from airline accidents involving western-built jets also fell by half from the previous year to 455.
This figure does not include the several hundred passengers aboard the four airliners which Islamic militants hijacked and then crashed in the September 11 attacks since those deaths were due to terrorism rather than air accidents.
Figures from the aviation safety network, which include turboprop aircraft as well as jets, showed that 2001 was the sixth safest year since 1970, CASA said. The number of multi-engine airliner accidents involving fatalities was 32 per cent below the average annual rate for the previous 30 years, it said.
And statistics published in the United States showed that the accident rate there in 2001 fell from 0.299 accidents per 100,000 hours to 0. 215.
The findings from the CASA survey were published in the latest edition of the organisation's magazine, flight safety Australia.
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Drawing from industry studies and independent surveys, CASA said 2001 saw a decline in both accident rates and passenger fatalities involving commercial airlines. It was also the best year for accident prevention in commercial air travel since 1992, CASA said.
The loss rate of aircraft per million flying hours declined from 0.59 in 200 to 0.54 in 2001, according to data gathered by the international air transport association. Casa said the number of passenger and crew fatalities from airline accidents involving western-built jets also fell by half from the previous year to 455.
This figure does not include the several hundred passengers aboard the four airliners which Islamic militants hijacked and then crashed in the September 11 attacks since those deaths were due to terrorism rather than air accidents.
Figures from the aviation safety network, which include turboprop aircraft as well as jets, showed that 2001 was the sixth safest year since 1970, CASA said. The number of multi-engine airliner accidents involving fatalities was 32 per cent below the average annual rate for the previous 30 years, it said.
And statistics published in the United States showed that the accident rate there in 2001 fell from 0.299 accidents per 100,000 hours to 0. 215.
The findings from the CASA survey were published in the latest edition of the organisation's magazine, flight safety Australia.
Bureau Report