2024 Aviation Safety Improves Despite Deadly Accidents
2024 saw a remarkable improvement in aviation safety, with the airlines of United, KLM, and Qantas leading the way in safety, despite two catastrophic accidents that claimed 340 lives. This year ranked eighth in aviation history for safety, beating the ten-year average of 492 deaths per year.
The year began with a collision in January between a Japanese A350 and a coastal guard propeller plane. Miraculously, no fatalities were reported among the 379 passengers on the Airbus. In February, an American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 experienced an emergency door detachment during climb, but the plane landed safely, and no passengers were harmed. Later that month, an Embraer 190 of Marathon Airlines narrowly avoided a fatal crash after pilots overestimated the takeoff distance.
The most devastating incident occurred in December, a South Korean accident that resulted in 179 fatalities, accounting for 53% of all accident fatalities in 2024. Despite this tragedy, the global aviation fatality rate remained below the previous year's level for 51 out of 52 weeks. Africa also made progress in aviation safety, with significantly fewer air accidents than in previous decades. Europe recorded the best values in global aviation safety in 2024, with only one fatality in a cargo flight and a global victim share of 0.3%.
The Hamburg-based aviation accident agency JACDEC named Delta, KLM, and Qantas Airways as the airlines with the highest safety index in 2024. Although two major accidents occurred, resulting in 340 fatalities, the year's safety record was commendable, with a total of 179 fatalities less than the ten-year average.
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