2014 not the deadliest in
aviation history, but surely helpless to NATURE
Dark clouds and stormy winds
hover over our safety
If we look back at the unfortunate events of 2014 and the multiple
crashes including the military crashes, there have been more than 1000 deaths. As per the data reported onplanecrashinfo.com, 1,021 aviation deaths have
been registered so far in 2014 before the recent Air Asia plane crash in Dec
2014. This will raise the number of fatalities to 1183 in the year 2014.
Name of Airlines
|
Place
|
Month
|
Fatalities
|
Malaysian
Airline
|
Kualalumpur
to Beijing
|
March
|
239
|
Ukranian
Army Transport Plane
|
Ukraine
|
June
|
49
|
Malaysian
Airline
|
To
Kualalumpur
|
July
|
298
|
Air
Algeria
|
Mali
|
July
|
116
|
TransAsia
|
Near
Taiwan
|
July
|
48
|
Sepahan
|
Tehran
|
August
|
39
|
AirAsia
|
To
Singapore
|
December
|
162
|
Military
Crashes and others
|
232
|
||
Total
|
1183
|
2014 is the next deadliest year after 1998. According to the Aviation Safety Network, not
since 1998 have more people perished in plane crashes. That year there were
1,242 fatalities, including a Cebu Pacific Air crash, a China Airlines disaster
and a Swissair accident, in which there were 104, 203 and 229 fatalities
respectively.
Several
years in the Nineties saw even more fatalities. There were 1,845 in 1996, for
example, including 349 in the world's deadliest ever mid-air collision. Even
worse were the Seventies where in both 1972 and 1973, for example, deaths
exceeded the count of 2,000.
Furthermore,
if 2014 is judged in terms of the total number of fatal accidents, it was the
actually the safest year on record. “2014 is - by numbers - the safest year in
modern aviation history," Harro Ratner, CEO of the Aviation Safety
Network, told Epoch Times. "Even if we assume the AirAsia plane has
crashed, the number of fatal passenger flight accidents is still the lowest
ever - eight as opposed to eleven in 2012, which was the lowest number until
now.”
It is
also worth noting that there are more planes in the sky than ever before.
According to The World Bank, 743,096,000 flight tickets were sold in the US
last year, for example, compared with 295,329,088 in 1980. In Britain, 25,551,200
passengers flew in 1980, compared to 118,304,674 in 2013.
According
to Flightglobal, in 2013 there was one fatal accident per 1.9 million flights.
"Based on this metric, airline operations are now almost three times safer
than they were 20 years ago," it suggests.
Er Jigna Shah [BE, MBA]Sub Editor
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