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FLIGHT International. 2 January 1964 AIR CO Air Safety in 1963 E R C E LAST year was the fifth in succession that was safer for the users of air transport. The 1963 accident rate per 100m passenger- miles on scheduled services appears to have fallen 20 per cent, from 0-94 in the previous year to an all-time low of 0-75. This provisional Flight International estimate is based on a record compiled during the year up until December 30, when this issue closed for press. The main source of information was the Lloyd's List of aircraft casualties; and ICAO's provisional traffic figures for the year provided the basis for the estimate of the accident rate. The list covers all transport aircraft revenue flights incurring fatalities to occupants. During 1963 some 678 passengers were killed (up to December 30) in a total of 27 accidents while travelling on scheduled services. This compares with 765 killed in 28 accidents during 1962; as n 1962, the total does not include fatalities incurred by Aeroflo or by other non-lATA Communist-country airlines. Nevertheless, this is an extremely satisfying trend which, as has already been shown, is further improved statistically because it was achieved in a year when traffic has been estimated to have risen 11 per cem. to 90,000m passenger-miles. After the alarming rise which occurred in 1962 in the number of fatalities on non-scheduled operations, when some 400 passenge; were killed, the 1963 non-scheduled figure of about 150 is a notabL improvement. But the record of this type of air transport operation casts its shadow over the industry as a whole, though it is now more in proportion to the scale of charter operations. Date Carrier Aircraft Location ! Fatalities! Pats. jCrcw Jan 14 > Wien ! Alaska \ 18 \ Airlines Jin 15 I Cruzeiro do . Convatr Sul* 240 Jan 29 | Continental* Viscount F«b 1 | MEA* Beechcraft Bartar Island, Alatka Congonhat Air- port, Sao Paulo, Brazil F«b 3 Fab 12 Mar 2 Mar IS Mar 15 Mar 30 Apr 14 MEA | Vitcount \j Turkish AF I C-47 /; Slick Kansas City Collided over Ankara Suptr Constella- tionNorthwest* Boeing 720B ! DC-3PAL* Trans- Mediter- ranean Lloyd Aerao Boliviano* York DC-6B Itavia* | DC-3 Icslandair* Viscount May I : Nitto*Airlines May I Aerotaxi May 4 Air Afrique* May 4 ; Cruzeiro do May 6 May 12 j UAA* Sul' TCA* Otter Beaver DC-6 Convair' 440 ' Vanguard i DC-3 June 3 Indian : DC-3 Airlines j ! Corp* ; June 4 Northwest DC-7 June 10 Union of i Burma Airways* DC-3 San FranciscoInternational Everglades I Swamps. 46 miles I West of Miami I Mindanao 7 miles SE Karaj,Iran Tacora Volcano, 10 miles W of Aricj - La Pax railroad En route Pes- eara - Rome Isle of Nesoy, near Fornebu Airport, Oslo j Awaii Island Medellin, Col- ' ombia • Mt Cameroon, i 40 miles W of1 Douala i Sao Paulo i 50 miles W of i Rocky Mountain House atil.OOOW | Ayayda. en ! route Cairo - | : Alexandria i I Nr Pathankot < 35 24 36 5 7 3 46 28 30 25 Over Gulf of 95 Alaska Between Myit- 15 kyinaandPutao Circumstances Crashed onapproach Attempting emer- gency landing on one engine. Seven people killed on ground Swerved on landing and struck dyke Viscount approach- ing to land, on course, when col- lision occurred. C-47 on instrument flight. Approx 60 people killed on ground Crashed in fog I Crashed Bmin after take-off Crashed in poor visibility En route Teheran - Beirut. No pas- sengers carried Crashed in Andes at about 14,500ft Crashed into moun- tain in storm Crashed into hilt on approach Hit mountain Unknown Crashed 6,500ft up mountain Crashed ISmin afterengine failure on take-off Hit severe turbu- lence, landed safely Crashed in flames after take-off Disintegration? Crashed into sea Attempting to land in monsoon Date Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 15 Jul 17 Jul 28 Aug 12 Aug 14 Aug 17 Sep 4 Sep 5 Sep II Sep II Oct9 Oct 14 Nov8 Nov29 Dec 8 Dec 12 Carrier Varig* Mohawk* NZNAC* Air Mada- gascar* Air America UAA* Air Inter* AaxicoAirlines Fujita Swissair* Air America IAC* Airnautic Air Systems New York Airways* Finnair* TCA* PAA* Trans- Mediter- ranean Passe * Scheduled Aircraft DC-3 Martin 4-0-4 DC-3 DC-3 C-46 Comet 4C Viscount 708 C-46F Heron Caravelle C-46 Viscount Viking Globe- master Boeing Vertol I07B DC-3 DC-8F Boeing 707 DC-4 nger and cre\ Location Bela Vista, Rio Grande do SulState, S Brazil Rochester Airport, NY Lost betweenAuckland and Tauranga Farafangana, Madagascar Northern Laos Off Madh Island, Nr Bombay Near Lyons- Bron Airport Great Falls, Montana Nr Hachijo Island, south of TokyoDuerrenaesch, Nr Zurich En route Savannakhet- VientianeNr Lalitpur, S of Agra In Pyrenees nrPerpignan Nr MarignaneAirport, Marseilles Idlewild International Mariehamn, Aland Islands St Therese deBlainville, Montreal En route Baltimore- Philadelphia Near Kabul? w fatalities 1963: Total Fatal Pass. 12 5 20 2 54 II 16 74 _ 13 36 3 3 19 III 72 826 ities Crew 3 2 3 4 6 8 4 1 3 6 7 5 4 3 3 3 7 8 3 159 985 Circumstances Attempting to Ian: in bad weather, rroute Porto Alegre • Passo FundoTake-off in bic weather Hit mountain during let-down Crashed on take-or Hit high grouno on rice-dropping missionCrashed into sc. during bad weather let-downStruck pylon on bad weather ap- proach, killing one man on groundCrashed en route, cause unknown Hit mountain et route Hachijo Island TokyoExplosion following hydraulic system fire Hit high ground on rice-dropping mis- sionEn route Nagpur- New Delhi Hit mountain Crashed on hilltop (Cattle-carryinj) Mechanical failure of rotor-drive sys- temCrashed in fog Take-off Lightning? 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