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The airplane crashed within the Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad with 242 folks is simply the final of the lengthy record of tragedies attributable to air disasters in latest historical past, however actually a unicum for the variety of victims, over 240.

According to the Security Report 2024/2025 of the EIR (International Air Transport Association), in 2024 seven deadly accidents occurred out of a complete of 40.6 million flights. An rising quantity in comparison with the accident solely recorded in 2023 and better than the common of the final 5 years, which is 5 accidents per 12 months. The victims on board had been 244, greater than triple in comparison with 72 in 2023 and effectively past the 5 -year common of 144 deaths. Despite this, the chance of mortality from passenger remained low: 0.06 each million flights. A determine even decrease than the lengthy -term common (0.10), even when rising in comparison with 2023, when it was 0.03.

Among these, the newest was January 29 when, a PSA Airlines 5342 airplane, when approaching the Washington-Reagan airport, clashed in flight with a army helicopter above the Potomac river, about half a mile from the monitor. In the influence all 67 folks on board died: 64 on the airplane and three on the helicopter.

The most severe was the flight catastrophe Jeju Air 7c2216, a Boeing 737 800 left from Bangkok and headed for Muan, in South Korea. On 29 December 2024, the airplane crashed throughout the touchdown section. Only two crew members survived. The useless had been 179.

Aerial security in enchancment, however Africa stays the world most in danger

Looking on the lengthy -term pattern, the aviation sector has made huge progress in security. The common price of accidents on a five-year foundation dropped from 2.20 per million flights within the interval 2011- 2015 to 1.25 within the five-year interval 2020-2024. The common mortality threat has additionally halved: from 0.28 to 0.10 per million flights. On common, within the final 5 years about 5 deadly accidents have occurred per 12 months, with 144 annual victims between passengers and air transport operators.