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ABOUT THIS SITE
Program Overview:

This site does not intend to be another list of air accidents, the aim is to answer the question: is there a way to know if one airline is safer than another?

To reach this objective we started from a database including all fatal occurrences to commercial aircraft, scheduled and charter, specifying for each one of them the nationality of the carrier involved. The next step was to relate the accident figures with a production element in order to get an output showing the number of accidents vs. the production performed.

Therefore we processed, for each ICAO country, the following ratio:

Number Of Fatal Accidents / Production Performed

The selected Production factor was TKP (Tonn-Km-Performed), which includes the number of Km performed as well as revenue load carried (passengers + cargo) by commercial aircraft for each country of registration.

Through TKP one can include the full range of commercial aviation: domestic and international services, scheduled and charter operations; passengers and cargo flights. The ratio is processed on five-years basis. This period is considered to be short enough to exclude old data, and long enough to be statistical significant.

With the above assessments one can have a safety snapshot referring not to a single carrier but to the respective civil aviation authority’s (CAA) capability for providing safety certification and oversight for its carriers. Such a procedure is not arbitrary but consistent with the historical trend of civil aviation safety.

An examination of more than half a century of data (the database starts from 1951) has given us the reasonable certainty that rather than safety problems to be ascribed to single carriers, there are problems attributable to the capability of respective CAAs in providing effective control of the carriers under their jurisdiction. As further support to the above overview it is worth remembering that the USA IASA program (International Aviation Safety Assessments), started in 1991, is based on a similar concept:

«The purpose of the IASA is to ensure that all foreign air carriers that operate to or from the United States are properly licensed and with safety oversight provided by a competent Civil Aviation Authority in accordance with ICAO standards».

How can one evaluate the relative safety of an individual airline? Having verified the safety record of an individual country, the traveller can then check what airlines from "safer" countries fly to the chosen destination, to decide whether to avoid the local carrier or not.
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Last Event: 28/07/2010, A321, air blue, Location: magara hills, pakistan, Fatalities: 152 On Board, 0 On Ground.
  
 

21/06/2010 08:00
ARTICLE POSTED 21/06/2010 08:00

Safety Review 06/2010

Latest author's Safety Review published on www.dedalonews.it (analysis section, 19/06/2010); PDF available.

Related Documents » 190610dedalonews.pdf

Latest author's Safety Review published on www.dedalonews.it (analysis section, 19/06/2010); PDF available.

04/03/2010 23:10
ARTICLE POSTED 04/03/2010 23:10

Air-France 447 analysis

Author's analysis about Air-France 447 accident published on www.dedalonews.it (analysis section, 04/03/2010); PDF available.

Related Documents » 040310dedalonews.pdf

Author's analysis about Air-France 447 accident published on www.dedalonews.it (analysis section, 04/03/2010); PDF available.

26/02/2010 13:33
ARTICLE POSTED 26/02/2010 13:33

Safety Review 02/2010

Latest author's Safety Review published on www.dedalonews.it (analysis section, 26/02/2010); PDF available.

Related Documents » 260210dedalonews.pdf

Latest author's Safety Review published on www.dedalonews.it (analysis section, 26/02/2010); PDF available.

11/02/2010 19:20
ARTICLE POSTED 11/02/2010 19:20

Heatrow accident analysis

Analysis about Heatrow accident occurred on Jan 17th 2008 and meteo alert published on www.dedalonews.it (analysis section, 11/02/2010); PDF available.

Related Documents » 110210dedalonews.pdf

Analysis about Heatrow accident occurred on Jan 17th 2008 and meteo alert published on www.dedalonews.it (analysis section, 11/02/2010); PDF available.

04/02/2010 18:31
ARTICLE POSTED 04/02/2010 18:31

Night-Flights Review

Latest author's Safety Review about night-flights events, published on www.dedalonews.it (aeronautics section, 03/02/2010), is available here in usual PDF.

Related Documents » 030210dedalonews.pdf

Latest author's Safety Review about night-flights events, published on www.dedalonews.it (aeronautics section, 03/02/2010), is available here in usual PDF.

07/01/2010 8:11
ARTICLE POSTED 07/01/2010 8:11

Safety Review 2009

Antonio Bordoni's Safety Review 2009 article has been published on www.dedalonews.it (aeronautics section, 04/01/2010).
Download PDF from here.

Related Documents » 040110dedalonews.pdf

Antonio Bordoni's Safety Review 2009 article has been published on www.dedalonews.it (aeronautics section, 04/01/2010).
Download PDF from here.

17/12/2009 17:01
ARTICLE POSTED 17/12/2009 17:01

Interim Report

BEA has released second Interim Report on AF447 accident.

Related Documents » 01062009A330.pdf

BEA has released second Interim Report on AF447 accident.

01/07/2009 8:13
ARTICLE POSTED 01/07/2009 8:13

About last Yemenia accident

Yemenia accident (last June 29th) shows several similarities with Gulf Air A320 accident occurred on August 2000 in Bahrain:
night approach, no ILS facility, manoeuvring performed over the waters, missed landing attempts. Spatial disorientation in what seems to be a challenging approach?

Yemenia accident (last June 29th) shows several similarities with Gulf Air A320 accident occurred on August 2000 in Bahrain:
night approach, no ILS facility, manoeuvring performed over the waters, missed landing attempts. Spatial disorientation in what seems to be a challenging approach?

18/06/2009 15:34
ARTICLE POSTED 18/06/2009 15:34

18/06/2009 - AF447

As flight recorders have not yet found, analysts start thinking that a bug in the AF447 computerised flight system could be the key to the crash; pitots alone could not explain the disaster but a flaw in the 3 independent ADIRU unit, could have led to a condition from which the aircraft could not recover.

As flight recorders have not yet found, analysts start thinking that a bug in the AF447 computerised flight system could be the key to the crash; pitots alone could not explain the disaster but a flaw in the 3 independent ADIRU unit, could have led to a condition from which the aircraft could not recover.

03/06/2009 8:52
ARTICLE POSTED 03/06/2009 8:52

03/06/2009 - About A330

Two recent incidents involving A330 could give some clues as to the cause of AF447 crash.
Last October and last December two Qantas A330 had problems with "ADIRU" (Air Data Inertial Reference Unit). Both incidents occurred when the aircraft had already reached the cruising level. More than 50 people were injured when the A330 plunged a thousand feet in few seconds in the October occurrence, the second event occurred on 27 December involving Qantas A330 en-route from Perth to Singapore, aircraft was at FL 360 (36,000 feet). In both occurrence the model was the A330-300 (the AF model was A330-200) and the crew managed to regain control. Electronic equipment like ADIRU may be vulnerable to conducted and radiated emissions (EMI Electromagnetic interference).
These events have confirmed that the complete reliance on automation not only can increase pilot workloads but can amplify the risk of control-loss when most of these automated systems fail.

Two recent incidents involving A330 could give some clues as to the cause of AF447 crash.
Last October and last December two Qantas A330 had problems with "ADIRU" (Air Data Inertial Reference Unit). Both incidents occurred when the aircraft had already reached the cruising level. More than 50 people were injured when the A330 plunged a thousand feet in few seconds in the October occurrence, the second event occurred on 27 December involving Qantas A330 en-route from Perth to Singapore, aircraft was at FL 360 (36,000 feet). In both occurrence the model was the A330-300 (the AF model was A330-200) and the crew managed to regain control. Electronic equipment like ADIRU may be vulnerable to conducted and radiated emissions (EMI Electromagnetic interference).
These events have confirmed that the complete reliance on automation not only can increase pilot workloads but can amplify the risk of control-loss when most of these automated systems fail.

01/06/2009 17:11
ARTICLE POSTED 01/06/2009 17:11

01/06/2009 - Air France RIO-PAR

The Air France accident on the route RIO-PAR is the first one occurred in the South Atlantic Ocean crossing area.
All the accidents before the Air France, on the Europe-South American routes, occurred inside the South America continent, but never in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Air France accident on the route RIO-PAR is the first one occurred in the South Atlantic Ocean crossing area.
All the accidents before the Air France, on the Europe-South American routes, occurred inside the South America continent, but never in the Atlantic Ocean.

11/04/2009 15:23
ARTICLE POSTED 11/04/2009 15:23

01/04/2009 - IOSA Registry

IATA announced that all 224 its members airlines are listed on the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) Registry.

IATA announced that all 224 its members airlines are listed on the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) Registry.

23/03/2009 11:54
ARTICLE POSTED 23/03/2009 11:54

23/03/2009 - Pilatus PC12-45

On 22 March 2009, a Pilatus PC12-45 (MTOW 4500) crashed on approach to the Bert Mooney Airport (Butte, Montana, Usa) On board 14 people, all killed. PC-12 can accomodate up to 10 passengers, which raised question regarding number of pax onboard the charter flight.

On 22 March 2009, a Pilatus PC12-45 (MTOW 4500) crashed on approach to the Bert Mooney Airport (Butte, Montana, Usa) On board 14 people, all killed. PC-12 can accomodate up to 10 passengers, which raised question regarding number of pax onboard the charter flight.

10/03/2009 17:21
ARTICLE POSTED 10/03/2009 17:21

04/03/2009 - THY Amsterdam

THY accident at Amsterdam: investigations revealed that a sudden reduction in engine thrust occurred at the same time with a step-change in the reading one of the two radio altimeters.

THY accident at Amsterdam: investigations revealed that a sudden reduction in engine thrust occurred at the same time with a step-change in the reading one of the two radio altimeters.

04/03/2009 16:02
ARTICLE POSTED 04/03/2009 16:02

20/02/2009 - IATA Plans

IATA announced plans to kick out members at the end of next month for failing to pass quality control checks required by its IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) program.

IATA announced plans to kick out members at the end of next month for failing to pass quality control checks required by its IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) program.

04/03/2009 16:05
ARTICLE POSTED 04/03/2009 16:05

27/11/2008 Crash Update

24/02/2009 - According to French investigators, the ANZ Airbus A320 which crashed on 27/11/2008 into the Mediterranean Sea, had been attempting, at just 3000 ft, a low-speed test normally carried out at Flight Level 140.

24/02/2009 - According to French investigators, the ANZ Airbus A320 which crashed on 27/11/2008 into the Mediterranean Sea, had been attempting, at just 3000 ft, a low-speed test normally carried out at Flight Level 140.

25/02/2009 12:43
ARTICLE POSTED 25/02/2009 12:43

25/02/2009 - THY Boeing 737

A THY Boeing 737 (TC-JGE) crashed into farmland and broke into three approaching Runway 36L at Schiphol Airport. A new bird-strike case, or an aerodynamic stall?

A THY Boeing 737 (TC-JGE) crashed into farmland and broke into three approaching Runway 36L at Schiphol Airport. A new bird-strike case, or an aerodynamic stall?

17/02/2009 8:46
ARTICLE POSTED 17/02/2009 8:46

12/02/2009 - Buffalo

Buffalo accident has broken the safest period in US commercial aviation history. The U.S. last fatal commercial accident occurred in August 2006, no large American jetliner has crashed since the year 2001.

Buffalo accident has broken the safest period in US commercial aviation history. The U.S. last fatal commercial accident occurred in August 2006, no large American jetliner has crashed since the year 2001.
 

50 Worst Accidents

An interesting chart showing the first 50 most tragic events in aviation history since year 1951.

Collisions Stat

All in-flight and on-ground collisions involving commercial aircraft from 1951.

I.A.M.T.

International Aircraft Marking Table: a detailed list of ICAO countries and world areas abbreviations.

Stat#1

Includes statistics relating to last five years covered. Statistics refer to area of event, phase of flight, type of flight.

Stat#2

Fatal accidents, passenger scheduled operations grouped by operator's country (excluded hostile acts).

Stat#3.1

Occurrences ordered by operation category since year 1951 (charter, scheduled and cargo, excluded hostile acts).

Stat#3.2

Occurrences ordered by region since year 1951. Filter can be switched between charter/scheduled/cargo and scheduled only, both excluding hostile acts.

Stat#3.3

Occurrences ordered by phase of flight since year 1951 (charter, scheduled and cargo, excluded hostile acts).

Stat#3.4

Occurrences ordered by type of aircraft since year 1951 (charter, scheduled and cargo, excluded hostile acts).
The detach button give the opportunity to compare multiple queries in overlapped windows.

Stat#3.5

Occurrences ordered by operators/carriers since year 1951 (charter, scheduled and cargo, excluded hostile acts).
The detach button give the opportunity to compare multiple queries in overlapped windows.

Stat#4

Departures statistics (only scheduled operations excluding hostile acts, from 2001 till last closed year), including departures-by-region and accidents-vs-departures sheets.

TKP Stat

In the range of the last five closed years, that sheet shows the number of TKP performed by the airlines of each ICAO's country, the number of accidents occurred and a very interesting ratio between them.

Years Database

Database including all fatal occurrences to commercial aircraft from year 1951. You'll find here also fatal events due to turbulence in flight, pilots dead while on duty and other particular events.
In case "zero" is shown in the casualties column, it means that the occurrence caused casualties on ground only.
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