air accidents 2020 year statistics

2020: fewer flights, fewer plane crashes

In this installment we will review cómo se comportó the industry toéarea with respect to núgrouper accidents toéprisoners during the complexñO 2020.

After añor full of challengeíos for the industryérea, where many aerolílines have stopped operating and thousands of planes have stayed on the ground after the worst crisis in historyóaviation richón, It's time tooén opportune to review the aviation accident rateón in what was the 2020.

Año a añor we review the behavior of the industryéarea regarding security and operations, but I reviewed itón of the 2020 to beá different, since the núnumber of flights fell by about a 70% Worldwide, so it certainly shows it to the añor passed as one of the más insurance.

Más safe because they have had fewer accidents, but alsoén million fewer passengers in the air, so the incidence of negative events isíaesthetically tooén was significantly reduced.

Accidents toéprisoners 2020

In this way, the main aviation portalón ASN – Aviation Safety Network which closely tracks accidents and is based on all fatal commercial aircraft accidents worldwide (passenger and cargo flights) involving civil aircraft whose model básico has been certified to transport 14 o más passengers.

In its annual statement, the portal indicates:

The airline industryíinternational lines in 2020 sufferó eight fatal accidents that resulted in 314 deaths, both below the average of five toñthe industry, themselvesún the statesístatistics published by Aviation Safety Network (ASN). In the totals of 2020 Two events are included in which passenger planes were shot down inadvertently, killing the 182 passengers and crewón.

Eight fatal accidents are the fewest recorded in a yearñthe complete. The año másafe in the history of aviationón It was 2017 with 10 fatal accidents and 44 Lost lives.

The global COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on the aviation industry.ón and 2020, causing an approxígives significant in the núnumber of flights operated. Industry studies suggest that the tráI'm theéworld prisoner in 2020 was approximately half that of 2019. The Añor last they had surgery shortlyás de 19 million flights, which is approximately the same nújust what was doneó on 1999, when ASN registeredó 43 fatal accidents resulting in 689 deaths.

Significant improvements have been made to aviation security.ón during the úlast 20 años, but challenges persistíthe important ones, and two of them stood out in 2020: approach accidentsón and landing and commercial flights over conflict zones.

Trail excursion accidents in Turkeyía and India resulted in 24 deaths.

  • 314 fatalities
  • 8 accidents
  • 1 accident during ascent stage
  • 2 cruise ship accidents
  • 3 approach accidentsón
  • 2 landing accidents

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  1. There are an incredible number of accidents that I didn't know happened, since only you write in such detail about this topic that is aviation.
    On television they only tell you the name of the airline that crashed, sometimes the aircraft and finally the country where it happened.

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