One hundred and fifty-eight people died worldwide in 2022 in accidents involving commercial aircraft, compared to 121 in 2021, against a backdrop of the resumption of traffic after Covid-19, according to a report published on Tuesday.
The vast majority of these deaths (132) are due to the hitherto unexplained crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737 on March 21, 2022 in China, the International Air Transport Association (Iata) pointed out in its report. annual safety report.
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Nineteen more people died on November 6 in the crash of a Precision Air ATR-42 turboprop in Tanzania, according to Iata, which counts a total of five fatal accidents involving commercial aircraft last year, against seven in 2021. Three of the accidents resulted in casualties only on the ground: two involved vehicles traveling on the track, while the last claimed the life of an employee who was sucked into an engine.
Iata counted 39 commercial aircraft accidents in 2022, compared to 29 in 2021. At the same time, air traffic grew by 25% to 32 million flights, even if it remained 31% lower than the total for 2019, before the pandemic that torpedoed this sector.
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The fatal accident rate has fallen
The number of accidents per million flights nevertheless climbed to 1.21 from 1.13 a year earlier.
The rate of fatal accidents, on the other hand, fell to 0.16 (-0.11 point).
There were 132 fatalities in commercial aircraft crashes in 2020 and 240 in 2019, the year of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash (157 fatalities).
Iata said on Tuesday that the accident rate per million flights remained in sharp decline in the medium term, since it was still 2.31 in 2013.
This improvement is made possible by the successive accumulation, since the beginning of commercial aviation, of regulations, technologies, infrastructures, but also by the training of pilots.
Air disasters systematically lead to very detailed technical investigations.
It should be noted that jets are much safer than turboprop aircraft, with 0.17 and 1.47 serious accidents (irreparable device) respectively per million flights in 2022.
But on average, a passenger flying every day would take 2,263 years to suffer an accident, and 25,214 years for a fatal accident, said Iata, which represents some 300 airlines totaling 83% of global traffic.
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