Last Year Was Safest Ever to Fly, With No Jetliner Fatalities
- Just one deadly accident occurred on turboprop in Nepal: IATA
- Rate of accidents fell to lowest on record, airline body says
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Last year was the safest ever for commercial flying by a number of measures, the airline industry’s global lobby said, with no fatal accidents involving passenger jets in 37.7 million flights.
No hull losses to passenger jets were recorded either, the International Air Transport Association said Wednesday in its 2023 Annual Safety Report for global aviation. By comparison, there was one fatal jet accident in 2022. Overall, the rate of accidents fell to one per every 1.26 million flights last year, the lowest in more than a decade.