The death toll from air crashes increased in 2020, despite the decline in accidents and flights
A Dutch consulting firm revealed on Friday that the death toll from major commercial aviation accidents in 2020 increased to 299 people around the world, even as the number of accidents decreased by more than 50%.
Two Seventy, an aviation consultancy, said it had recorded 40 major commercial passenger aircraft accidents in 2020, five of which were fatal, leaving 299 people dead. There were 86 incidents in 2019, eight of them fatal, killing 257 people.
The company stated that large commercial aircraft recorded 0.27 fatal accidents per million flights during the past year, or one fatal accident for every 3.7 million flights, up from 0.18 fatal flights per million flights in 2019.
The decrease in the number of crashes comes amid a sharp decline in the number of flights as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The website “FlightRadar24” stated that the number of commercial flights it tracked around the world during the past year decreased by 42% to 24.4 million.
More than half of the 176 total deaths recorded in the “To Seventi” report were on board a Ukrainian plane that was shot down in Iranian airspace in January.
The second deadliest accident occurred in May, when a Pakistani plane crashed, killing 98.
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Airline accident deaths have decreased dramatically over the past two decades. The Aviation Safety Network “ASN” said it recorded 1015 deaths in commercial aircraft accidents around the world in 2005.
And for the past five years, the network said it had recorded an average of 14 fatal accidents involving passenger and cargo aircraft during that period, which resulted in 345 deaths annually.
2017 was the safest year ever in aviation traffic around the world, with two small plane crashes that resulted in 13 deaths, but there were no fatal accidents in the large passenger aircraft sector.
