2023 Safest Year for Flying By Several Parameters
Aviation continues to make progress on safety with several 2023 parameters showing "best-ever" results, according to IATA´s Annual Safety Report for global aviation.
There were 37 million aircraft movements in 2023 (jet and turboprop), an increase of 17% on the previous year.
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Report highlights include:
The fatality risk improved to 0.03 in 2023 from 0.11 in 2022 and 0.11 for the five years, 2019-2023. At this level of safety, on average a person would have to travel by air every day for 103,239 years to experience a fatal accident.
Airlines experienced no fatal accidents in 2023.
A single fatal accident occurred in 2023, on a turboprop aircraft, resulting in 72 fatalities. This is reduced from five fatal accidents in 2022 and an improvement on the five-year average (2019-2023) which was five.
