NTSB Aviation Accidents At Lowest Level In Last 20 Years

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NTSB Aviation Accidents At Lowest Level In Last 20 Years By Jim Douglas

		April 9, 2010 - The National Transportation Safety Board today released preliminary aviation accident statistics for 2009 showing an overall decrease in U. S. civil aviation accidents that includes general aviation and on-demand Part 135 operations. In fact, on-demand Part 135 operations had the lowest number of accidents and fatal accidents for that type of air operation in the last 2 decades. The total number of U.S. civil aviation accidents decreased from 1,658 in 2008 to 1,551 in 2009. Total fatalities also showed a decrease from 566 to 534. The majority of these fatalities occurred in general aviation and scheduled Part 121 operations.

General aviation accidents decreased from 1,566 in 2008 to 1,474 in 2009. There were 272 fatal general aviation accidents, down from 275 the year before. However, the accident rate increased to 7.20 per 100,000 flight hours in 2009 from 6.86 in 2008, due to the decrease in the number total of flight hours. Although fatalities decreased from 494 to 474, the fatal accident rate increased to from 1.21 to 1.33. Last year, one fatal accident occurred involving a scheduled Part 121 operator. On February 12, 2009, a Colgan Air, Inc., Bombardier DHC-8- 400, operating as Continental Connection flight 3407, crashed outside of Buffalo , New York, resulting in 50 fatalities. On-demand Part 135 operations reported 47 accidents in 2009, a decrease from 58 in 2008. Fatalities also decreased from 69 in 2008 to 17 in 2009. The accident rate decreased to 1.63 per 100,000 flight hours in 2009 from 1.81 in 2008.

Accidents, Fatalities, and Rates, 1990 through 2009, for U.S. Air Carriers Operating Under 14 CFR 121, Scheduled and Nonscheduled Service (Airlines)
	Accidents		Fatalities					Accidents per 100,000 Flight Hours		Accidents per 1,000,000 Miles Flown		Accidents per 100,000 Departures
Year	All	Fatal	Total	Aboard	Flight Hours	Miles Flown	Departures	All	Fatal	All	Fatal	All	Fatal
1990	24	6	39	12	12,150,116	4,947,832,000	8,092,306	0.198	0.049	0.0049	0.0012	0.297	0.074
1991	26	4	62	49	11,780,610	4,824,824,000	7,814,875	0.221	0.034	0.0054	0.0008	0.333	0.051
1992	18	4	33	31	12,359,715	5,039,435,000	7,880,707	0.146	0.032	0.0036	0.0008	0.228	0.051
1993	23	1	1	0	12,706,206	5,249,469,000	8,073,173	0.181	0.008	0.0044	0.0002	0.285	0.012
1994*	23	4	239	237	13,124,315	5,478,118,000	8,238,306	0.168	0.030	0.0040	0.0007	0.267	0.049
1995	36	3	168	162	13,505,257	5,654,069,000	8,457,465	0.267	0.022	0.0064	0.0005	0.426	0.035
1996	37	5	380	350	13,746,112	5,873,108,000	8,228,810	0.269	0.036	0.0063	0.0009	0.450	0.061
1997	49	4	8	6	15,838,109	6,696,638,000	10,318,383	0.309	0.025	0.0073	0.0006	0.475	0.039
1998	50	1	1	0	16,816,555	6,736,543,000	10,979,762	0.297	0.006	0.0074	0.0001	0.455	0.009
1999	51	2	12	11	17,555,208	7,101,314,000	11,308,762	0.291	0.011	0.0072	0.0003	0.451	0.018
2000	56	3	92	92	18,299,257	7,524,027,000	11,468,229	0.306	0.016	0.0074	0.0004	0.488	0.026
2001*	46	6	531	525	17,814,191	7,294,191,000	10,954,832	0.236	0.011	0.0058	0.0003	0.383	0.018
2002	41	0	0	0	17,290,198	7,192,501,000	10,508,473	0.237	-	0.0057	-	0.390	-
2003	54	2	22	21	17,467,700	7,280,383,000	10,433,164	0.309	0.011	0.0074	0.0003	0.518	0.019
2004	30	2	14	14	18,882,503	7,930,159,000	11,023,128	0.159	0.011	0.0038	0.0003	0.272	0.018
2005	40	3	22	20	19,390,029	8,165,643,000	11,130,407	0.206	0.015	0.0049	0.0004	0.359	0.027
2006	33	2	50	49	19,263,209	8,139,357,000	10,820,915	0.171	0.010	0.0041	0.0002	0.305	0.018
2007	28	1	1	1	19,637,322	8,315,905,000	10,928,432	0.143	0.005	0.0034	0.0001	0.256	0.009
2008	28	2	3	1	19,097,962	8,068,288,000	10,437,197	0.147	0.010	0.0034	0.0002	0.268	0.019
2009	30	2	52	51	18,001,000	7,557,161,000	10,349,200	0.167	0.011	0.0040	0.0003	0.290	0.019

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