Global airline accident review of 2009

Safety is the Aviation industry critical success factor. From training to ground operations and subsequently the flight operations: safety is very much emphasized. However in the last ten years the safety records has plateaued. This has brought concerns to various citizen groups. Attached below is an interesting article for all of us to ponder. Regards/ Zahir

Airline safety in 2009, judged by the number of fatal accidents, was a little better than the average for the decade. Better still, this first 10 years of the 21st century, taken as a whole, has seen the lowest accident rates in aviation history by a considerable margin.The bad news is that the constant improvement in safety that has taken place each decade since the Wright Brothers is now stagnating. This shows in the fact that, judging by fatal accident numbers, there was a step change in safety performance around the year 2000, but there has been virtually no improvement in safety in the 10 years from 2000 to 2009. Click below for more...

Global airline accident review of 2009