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1965 - 0013.PDF
:~L'GHT International, 7 January 1965 AIR TRANSPORT 1964's Best-ever Safety Record PROVISIONAL accident figures for 1964 show that this was,by accepted statistical yardsticks, the "safest" year yet for passengers on scheduled services. According to Flight's figures —based largely on the records published in Lloyd's List— there were 583 fatalities in 20 accidents on scheduled services. ICAO's year-end statistics show that a total of 107,000 million passenger-miles were flown by the world's scheduled airlines (ex USSR and China) in 1964. That being so, the accident rate was equivalent to 0.545 fatalities per 100 million passenger- miles. This is the lowest world figure so far recorded. The 1963 figure, according to ICAO statistics, was 0.76 and the 1962 figure was 0.95. All the previous years' fatality rates were higher than one per 100 million passenger-miles, with a lowest figure, between 1950 and 1961, of 1.02 in 1959 and a highest of 3.15 in 1950. Last year was also the most satisfactory when using other accepted yardsticks. The number of accidents on scheduled services (20) was the fewest since 1951, when there were also 20 accidents. Total number of passengers killed (583) was the lowest since 1957, when 507 were killed. The number of fatal accidents per 100 million miles flown in 1964 (using the ICAO mileage figure of 2,280 million) was 0.9—which was the lowest figure recorded—and the number per 100,000 aircraft hours, at 0.24, was also the lowest. The non-scheduled record for 1964 was slightly worse than for 1963, with 175 fatalities in 12 accidents, but much better than for 1962 when about 400 passengers were killed. Non- scheduled figures are obviously less reliable on a world-wide basis than those for scheduled services. Our list does not include air-taxi and similar accidents, and there is no absolute certainty that every non-scheduled accident in other categories has been recorded—or recorded in sufficient detail for inclu- sion in the tabulation. Passenger fatality rate for US scheduled operations in 1964 was less good than in 1963—though much lower than the world figure. In the first 11 months the rate per 100 million passenger-miles on domestic and international operations was, according to Aviation Daily, nearly 0.3, whereas the 12-month figure for 1963 was 0.23. FATAL AIR CARRIER ACCIDENTS, 1964 ite 9 IS 3 3 4 18 21 25 27 29 1 8 9 10 12 28 20 Carrier Aerotrans- portes del Litoral Argentino * Lloyd Aereo Boliviano *South Central Airlines * Turk Hava Yollari Lloyd Aereo Boliviano * Nitto Airlines Philippine Air Lines * Eastern Air Lines * Fuji Air- lines * British Eagle * Paradise Airlines Lineas Aereas Taxaeer* Snow Valley Ski Airline Slick Air-ways Frontier Airlines * Alitalia * Middle East Airlines * Aircraft DC-3 DC-3 Beech 18 DC-3 DC-3 Grumman Mallard DC-3 DC-8 Convair 240 Britannia 312 L-1049 DC-3 DC-3 DC-4 (cargo)DC-3 Viscount Caravelle Location Nr Zarace, Argentina Potosi Airport, BogotaGainesville Mun Airport Nr Ankara Nr Yacuiba, Bolivia Nr Osaka Lanao del Sur provinceLake Pontchar- train, N ofNew Orleans Oita Airport, Kyushu 12m SE of Inns- bruck Sierra Mts, Nevada West of Bogota Chicago Boston Harbour Nr Miles City, Montana Mt Vesuvius, Italy lOmSofDhah- ran Fatalities Pass. 28 1 9 1 1 28 49 20 75 81 25 2 40 42 Crew 3 — | 3 1 1 3 7 — 7 4 3 1 3 3 5 7 Circumstances Engine failure and ftre. Pilot believed overcome by fumes while attempting forced landingCrashed on take-off Crashed and burned on take-off Hit hillside Crashed soon after take-off Engine trouble, lost altitude, crashedCrashed in bad weatherDived into lake approx 9min aftertake-off from New Orleans Crashed into em- bankment on land- ing, caught fireHit mountain, poss- ibly during prelim-inary descent Hit high ground in snowstorm whileon initial approach to Lake Tahoe Not known. Re- ports of explosion Crashed on ap- proach to O'HareOn approach to Logan Intl.Crashed during ap- proach in snow-storm Hit mountain dur- ing approach to Naples Crashed in sea on approach in sand-storm Date May 7 May 20 June2l June 21 July 9 Augl6 Aug22 Sep 3 Oct 2 Nov IS Nov20 Nov 23 Nov 29 Dec 8 Dec 21 Dec 24 Dec 30 Carrier Pacific Air Lines * Philippine Air Lines * TASSA Civil Air Transport •United Air Lines •VASP Servicios Aereos CochabambaVASP* Union de TransportesAeriens Bonanza Air Lines * Linjeflyg * TWA* BelgianInternational Air Services Aerolineas Abaroa Fleming Air ServiceFlying Tiger Linea Aerea Sud Ameri- cana •Scheduled Aircraft F-27 Otter DC-3 C-46 Viscount C-46 (cargo) DC-3 Viscount DC-6 F-27 Convair 440 Boeing 707 DC-4 DC-3 DC-3 L-1049 (cargo)1 Location 12m E of Con- cord, Cal NrZamboanga Off coast ofMajorca Taichung, FormosaNr Newport, TennNr River Capim, Brazil Nr Tipuani, Bolivia NE of Rio de JaneiroSierra Nevada Mts, Spain Nr Las Vegas, Nevada Angelholm, SW SwedenFiumicino Air- port, Rome StanleyvilleAirport, Congo Between Tip- uani and La Paz, BoliviaAklan Province, Philippines3m TV of San FranciscoTurrialba Vol- cano, Costa Rica Totals Total Fatalities Pass. 41 10 1 52 35 2 34 73 25 29 37 5<!) II — — — 757 Crew 3 1 5 4 4 2 5 7 3 2 II 4 1 3 s 114 871 Circumstance* Pilots shot by passenger Crashed in bad weather Ditched after en- gine failure on take- off Engine failure after take-offFire in flight Crashed after los- ing No 1 propeller _ Hit mountain Hit Mt Alcazaba Hit mountain in snowstorm during approach to Las Vega*Hit power cables on approachExplosion and fire after aborted take- off Crashed on take-off: probably dam- aged by rebel fun- fireDynamite sabotage by passenger sus- pectedCrashlanded in Jefce Hit San Bruno Mountain Struck volcano
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