ANNUAL
SAFETY REVIEW
2006
European Aviation Safety Agency
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
1.0 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF AVIATION SAFETY
2.0 WORLDWIDE SAFETY OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT OPERATIONS
3.0 EUROPEAN SAFETY
3.1 Public Transport Operations
3.1.1 Fixed wing aircraft over 2,250 kg MTOM
3.1.2 Helicopters
3.2 General Aviation and Aerial Work Operations
3.2.1 Fixed wing aircraft
3.2.2 Helicopters
3.2.3 Gliders
3.2.4 Balloons
3.2.5 Annex 2 aircraft
4.0 ACCIDENT CATEGORIES
4.1 CAST-ICAO Safety Indicators
4.2 Public Air Transport Safety Indicators
5.0 EASA’S SAFETY ACTION
5.1 The European Strategic Safety Initiative (ESSI)
5.1.1 The European Commercial Aviation Safety Team (ECAST)
5.1.2 The European Helicopter Safety Team (EHEST)
5.1.3 The European General Aviation Safety Team (EGAST)
5.2 Rulemaking
5.3 Certification
APPENDIXES
Appendix 1: Definitions and Acronyms
Appendix 2: List of Figures
Appendix 3: Listing of fatal accidents in 2006
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CONTENT
Flying is the safest form of transportation. As this Annual Safety Review shows, 2006 saw the lowest number of fatal accidents to fixed wing aircraft in public transportation within the last decade (1997 – 2006). 42 fatal accidents happened worldwide that year. The number of onboard fatalities was also below the
average of the decade.
European aviation safety performance is high although the number of fatal
accidents slightly increased since 2004. In 2006, six fatal accidents for fixed wing aircraft in public transport operations occurred resulting in 146 onboard fatalities which is above the average of the decade (105). The high number of fatalities is mainly the result of one single accident. On 9 July 2006, a French registered Airbus 310 overran a runway in Irkutsk, Russia causing 126 losses of life. This review also shows that Europe’s accident improvement rates are lower than in the rest of the world.
For the first time, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) collected and
included European accident data for General Aviation and Aerial Work in this review. The data were made available by the National Accident Investigation
Bodies or National Aviation Authorities.
Efforts to maintain and improve aviation safety continue to be a priority for EASA. The Annual Safety Review also gives an overview of the Agency’s enhanced safety actions including the European Strategic Safety Initiative.
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ANNUAL SAFETY REVIEW 2006
This Annual Safety Review is compiled by EASA to inform the public of the
general safety level in the field of civil aviation as required by Article 11 (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002 of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 15 July 2002.
In preparation of this review, the Agency had access to accident information
collected by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) through its
Accident/Incident Data Reporting (ADREP) system1, accident statistics published by ICAO as well as data on the use of aircraft provided by ICAO. In addition, a request was made to EASA Member States to obtain data on light aircraft2
accidents for the year 2006.
In this review “Europe” is considered as the 27 EU Member States plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Compared to the Annual Safety Review 2005, the definition of Europe is expanded to include the new EU Member States Bulgaria and Romania and the four non-EU EASA members. The region is assigned based on the State of Registry of the accident aircraft.
1 Annex 13 – Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation – requires States to report to ICAO
information on accidents to aircraft with a maximum certificated take-off mass over 2,250 kg.
2 Light aircraft: aircraft with a certified maximum takeoff mass below 2,251 kg.
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The figures below are based on accident rates published in the Annual Report of the Council of ICAO.
The data in FIGURE 1 show that the safety of aviation has improved from 1945 onwards. Based on the measure of passenger fatalities per 100 million miles flown, it took some 20 years (1948 to 1968) to achieve the first ten-fold improvement from 5 to 0.5. Another ten-fold improvement was reached in 1997, some 30 years later, when the rate had dropped below 0.05.
The accident rate on this figure appears to be flat for recent years. This is the result of the scale used to reflect the high rates in the late 1940s.
　
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