IATA: 2014 was the safest year in aviation
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Despite several deadly air disasters, civil aviation experienced in 2014 the safest year ever, according to the director of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), adding that the industry would do everything to improve further its balance sheet.
"Despite the fact that the issue of air safety ended up in the headlines for much of 2014, it is safe to fly," said Tony Tyler, referring to two plane crashes of Malaysia Airlines.0.23 accidents per million flights
He commented, Hong Kong, the report of his organization on the safety of civil aviation in 2014. IATA has identified 12 fatal accidents involving all types of appliances, against an average of 19 such accidents between 2009 and 2013.
The accident rate is the "lower" in the history of aviation (0.23 accidents per million flights) is one accident for 4.4 million flights, the report said. In 2013, the rate was 0.41.641 deaths in 2014
However, a larger number of people killed by air in 2014: 641 people were killed against an average of 517 deaths per year between 2009 and 2013, the report said.
IATA has not taken into account in its report the crash of a Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines (MH17 flight) shot in July in eastern Ukraine (298 dead) because it was not of an accident.
After the mysterious disappearance remained to this day Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board, the aviation industry is committed to improving the traceability of devices, also stressed Tony Tyler. "The industry is unanimous in thinking she should do something to improve the traceability of devices," he has said.Minute followed by a minute in 2016
In early February, the UN agency International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has decided to impose, from 2016, followed by the minute minute aircraft incident but IATA pointed out that many companies were not going to wait to improve the traceability of flights.
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