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Patrick Goudou
European Aviation Safety Agency Issue # 01 02.2009 EASANEWS
Editorial
concerned an Airbus A320 in Honduras that overran
the runway during landing. Although this
aircraft was operated by an airline from outside
Europe, it was registered in one of the EASA MS.
Regarding accidents worldwide in the same category
(excluding EASA MS), 55 crashes had to be
counted leading to 511 losses of life. Although the
total number of accidents slightly increased from
2007, the number of fatalities is well below the
nine year average (874).
The number of fatal accidents for helicopter commercial
air transport operations in Europe increased
from one in 2007 to two in 2008. Despite this increase,
the number of fatalities is below the average
of the last nine years (10 fatalities) at three.
The statistics in this preview concern aircraft fatal
accidents3 above a maximum certificated take-off
mass (MTOM) over 2,250 kg operating as commercial
air transport. These operations involve the
transportation of passengers, cargo or mail for
remuneration or hire. The full EASA Annual Safety
Review 2008 will be published later this year.
Every year, the European Aviation Safety Agency
produces its Annual Safety Review to inform the
public of the general safety level in Europe1. The
year 2008 shows mixed results with the relative
low number of accidents being overshadowed by
the tragic accident of a McDonnell Douglas MD-
82 aircraft on 20 August in Madrid.
2008 was a mixed year for civil aviation safety in
Europe. The number of fatal accidents for commercial
air transport aeroplanes in EASA Member
States (EASA MS) remained low at a total of two.
This means that only six per cent of fatal accidents
in commercial air transport worldwide that year occurred
with aeroplanes registered in an EASA MS.
But on the other hand, the number of fatally injured
people on board for 2008 (157 fatalities) was
above the average of the previous nine years (86
fatalities)2. This is mainly due to the tragic accident
of a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft on 20 August
in Madrid. The plane crashed during take-off
killing 154 people on board. The second accident
Number of Fatal
Accidents
EASA MS-Accidents
Non EASA MS-Accidents
Fatal Accidents in Commercial Air Tranport (Aeroplanes, 1999 – 2008)
Number of Fatalities
1999
56 58 57 48 43 60 56 39 53 55
7
91
680
6
3
3
10 11
2 5 2
6
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
156
1120
187
1022 1103 1028 Non EASA MS: 9-year
average fatalities: 874
EASA MS: 9-year
average fatalities: 86
28 5
726 784 793
7
606
127 146 25 157
511
1 Europe or the EASA Member States are considered as the 27 EU Member States plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The region is assigned based on the State of Registry of the
accident aircraft. Worldwide accidents are the sum of “EASA MS” and “Non EASA MS”. 2 For the decade 1999–2008, nine-year averages were used to compare the year 2008. In this way averages
used for comparison purposes were not biased by the numbers of year 2008. 3 Fatal accidents are accidents that involved at least one fatality.
　
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