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IATA’s Air Safety Scorecard

Steve Scott

Monday, May 19th, 2008

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its 44th annual Safety Report showing that the 2007 global accident rate of 0.75 hull losses for every million flights by Western-built jet aircraft was slightly higher than the 0.65 rate recorded in 2006. This was largely the result of fatal accidents in Africa, Indonesia and to some extent Brazil. IATA member airlines performed better than the industry average with an accident rate of 0.68 hull losses per million flights, the Geneva-based…

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