2010 will see the European Union taking new steps
to improve aviation safety at the global scale. At
the heart of three key initiatives, the European
Aviation Safety Agency is adopting a decisive and
proactive approach to promoting safety. First, the
international conference on pilot training held on
24 November last year triggered a lively debate
on the priorities and effectiveness of today’s training
provisions. High levels of automation and increasingly
dense airspace are important factors.
The Agency will continue to foster information
exchange and research in this field and the results
will be used in future rulemaking activities.
Second, the European Aviation Safety Programme
(EASP) will gain momentum with a presentation to
Patrick Goudou, EASA Executive Director
the ICAO High-Level Safety Conference on Strategic
Key Issues for Global Aviation Safety from 29 March
- 1 April in Montreal. By coordinating the regulations
and activities of each EASA Member State under
the ICAO State Safety Programme, the EASP aims to
provide better high-level safety risk controls for the
individual States and enhance safety throughout the
region. Finally, with the international conference on
the possible effects of climate change on aviation in
Cologne on 8-9 September, the Agency is looking
into a completely new area and the potential impacts
on aircraft operation and design. The conference
will provide a new forum for meteorologists, operators,
manufacturers and regulators to identify risks
and work towards effective safety measures.
Preliminary safety data for 2009 show that it was
the year with the lowest number of fatal accidents
on record for the 31 Member States of the European
Aviation Safety Agency. This good safety record was
however overshadowed by the accident of an Airbus
A330 over the Atlantic. This was the only fatal acci-
Number of Fatal
Accidents
Fatal accidents EASA MS registered
Fatal accidents third country registered
Fatalities third country registered
Fatalities EASA MS registered
Fatal Accidents and fatalities 2000-2009: EASA MS and third country registered
Number of Fatalities
2000
147
1229
1
59 56 47 43 60 55 37 51 50 40
6
3
3
8 11 2
2
5
6
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
187
1019
28
1101
726 779
5 7
606
783
507
127
1013
146
25
157 228
570
* Fatal Accidents categorised as such using ICAO Annex 13 definition. Accidents include aeroplanes or helicopters with maximum take-off mass above 2.250kg conducting commercial air transport
operations (including air taxi, ferry/positioning and emergency medical services). Aircraft registration was used to assign aircraft into world regions. All data is preliminary and subject
to review and change as more information becomes available.
Aviation safety in 2009
dent for aeroplanes registered in an EASA Member
State in commercial air transport*. Despite this, the
number of fatalities in 2009 (228 fatalities) was significantly
above the decade average. The high number
of non-fatal accidents (24) in 2009 indicates that further
progress in safety is necessary. In comparison,
the decade 1999-2008 had every year on average 27
non-fatal and 5 fatal accidents with 92 fatalities.
In other world regions, the safety record in 2009 was
marred by an accident of an Airbus A310 in Comoros
and a Tu-154 in Iran. In total there were 41 fatal accidents
involving aircraft registered outside EASA
Member States. This is below the decade average of
51 fatal accidents (1999-2008), but not the lowest in
the decade. In these accidents there were 573 fatalities,
the second lowest number in the decade.
Preliminary data shows that in 2009 the number of
fatal accidents worldwide in commercial air transport
with helicopters was the second lowest for the decade:
only in the year 2000 the number of fatal accidents
was lower. When looking at the three-year
moving average, it appears that for the last five years
the average is more or less constant. The accident
numbers for EASA Member States remain small and
no further conclusions can be drawn. Two fatal accidents
occurred in Europe in 2009: two people died
in Poland when an emergency medical helicopter
crashed; in April, sixteen people died when a helicopter
crashed during an offshore flight from an oil
platform to Aberdeen, Scotland.
The full EASA Annual Safety Review 2009 will be published
later this year.
　
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