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FLIGHT International, 6 ;onuor)f AIR TRANSPORT . . . BETTER 1965 ACCIDENT RECORD FOR the past four years the scheduled airline safety levelhas been improving, with 1965 as the best so far. Using one of the accepted yardsticks—of deaths per 100 million passenger-miles—the figure was about 0.54 by comparison with 0.61 in 1964, 0.78 in 1963 and 0.95 in 1962. According to our records, based primarily on Lloyd's List, a total of 662 pas- sengers were killed on scheduled services; provisional ICAO traffic estimates give 123,500 million as the world airline pas- senger-mile figure on scheduled services in 1965 (excluding the USSR, China and other non-member States). The number of deaths on scheduled services was slightly higher than that in 1964 (647), but the passenger-mile total increased by a much greater relative amount (16 per cent). So the fact is mat 1965 was the "safest" year yet for the scheduled services of the airlines even though more passengers and crew members were killed and there were more fatal accidents (23 against 21 in 1964). Nevertheless, when the calculations hav been done, most of us will have a feeling that we have som ^ how been cheating. The stark figure of passenger and ere deaths (representing incalculable loss and unhappiness) cannot simply be considered merely as a mathematical figure in this simple sum. Obviously, fatalities can never be zero—but we should aim more vigorously towards a target which is much nearer to zero. For those with an interest in statistics as such, the 1965 scheduled-airline passenger fatality rate represents 0.26 per mil- lion miles flown; or 13,300 flying hours per fatality; or one death for every 270,000 passengers carried safely. The fatalitv total includes, for lack of positive information, the 35 killed in an accident in Vietnam which is believed to have been caused by gunfire. The record of fatal accidents once again lays emphasis on FATAL AIR CARRIER ACCIDENTS, 1965 Date Jan 17 Jan 26 Feb 3 Feb 6 Feb 8 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 20 Mar 8 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 22 Mar 26 Mar 31 Apr 10 Apr 14 Apr 23 May 5 May 20 July 8 July 16 July 20 Aug 4-5 Aug 12 Carrier Aerovias del Norte La Urraca! Air Cameroun LAN-Chile! Eastern! Aerolineas El Salvador Japan Domestic JAT Fairways! Eastern Provincial! Air Manila Avianca! PIA! Iberia Royal Jordanian BU (Cl) Airways! Aaxico Iberia! PIA! Canadian Pacific! Virgin Islands Airways Cambrian Rutas Inter- nacionales Peruanas Paraense! Aircraft » C-46 DC-6B DC-7B C-46 DC-3 DC-3 DC-3 Dart Herald DC-3 DC-3 DC-3 Convair 440 Dart Herald DC-3 DC-6 L-1049 Boeing 720B DC-6B DH Dove Viscount 701 DC-4 C-46 Location Zapote, Mexico SouthernColombia Garoua, approx350m north of Yaounde Nr Santiago Off Long Island Miami, Florida Between Osaka andTokyo West of Belgrade 100 miles CC r*.tJCOt ManilaNr Halifax, Nova Scotia fn sea off K.I £ JNewfound- from Gander Eastern Andes Lowary Pass, northwest • A K i s va n Off coast, nr TangierNr Damascus Nr Jersey Airport Mt Rainier, ^/ashington Los Rodeos Airport, 1 enerito Nr Cairo Airport North of Vancouver St, Thomas, Virgin Islands Liverpool Airport Nr Panama City Cuiaba, Matto Gosso Fata Pass. •7 (?) 4 (5) (1) 80 (80)79 (79) — 7 (9) 5 (5) 26 (26) 18 (20) 45 (48) 50 (50) 23 (23) — 25 (41) 106 (112) 46 (46) 6 (8?) 4 (4) 10 (10) ities* Crew 3 (?) 5 (5) (3) 7 (7) (5) 2 (2) (2) 5 (!' (3) 3 (3) 2 (2) 3 (3) (4) 5 (5) (4) 3 (4) 5 (8) 13 (63) (6) 1 (2?) I (2) 3 (3) 3 (3) Circumstances Crashed and caught fire on final ap- proach or landingEn route crash or forced landing — Hit mountainside at 12,000ftPossible loss of control during climb out ofKennedy Airport Crashed after take-off on cargo flight Cargo flight, wreckage not found Crashed on train- ing flight En route crash Crashed soon after take-off Ferry flight Hit mountainside Hit high ground Crashed into sea Crashed soon after take-off from Beirut Hit ground on approach in bad weather Hit mountainside Crashed and caught fire on landing Hit ground during night approach Mid-air explosiondetached tail section Crashed in seaafter take-off Possible loss of control on final approach or when initiating overshoot Crashed after take- off on livestock freight flight. Re- ported fire spread from No. 2 engine En route crash Date Aug 16 Aug 20 Sept 4 Sept 11 Sept 16 Sept 17 Sept 17 Oct 8 Oct 4 Oct 17 Oct 17 Oct 20 Oct 27 Nov 8 Nov 8 Nov II Nov 15 Nov 27 Dec 4 Dec 7 Dec 7 Dec 16 Carrier United! LOT Cordova! Fairways! AirVietnam! PAA! Trans portes Aereos Orientales! PIA United Air Carriers Avianca! Kalinga PAL! BEA! American! Unnamed Colombian carrier United! Air Mada- gascar! Edde Air Eastern! Spantax Aerolineas Carreras (Argentina) Air Manila! Aircraft Boeing 727 Viscount 804 Grand Com- mander DC-3 DC-3 Boeing 707 DC-3 F-27 Beech Baron DC-3 DC-3 DC-3 Vanguard Boeing 727 DC-3 Boeing 727 Broussard DC-3 L-1049 DC-3 C-46 DC-3 Location Lake Michi- gan, nr. ChicagoSt Trond, Belgium Tustumena Lake, Alaska Between Cebu and Baclod, Philippines Nr Quang Ngai, South Vietnam Montserrat, West Indies Ecuador Kaghan Valley, nr Naran, W PakistanN of Beira • v *^ i i/vll Ot Mozambique Nr Bucara- manga, Colombia Mohambaru, Assam Manila London Heathrow Airport Nr Cincin- nati Nr Boque- ron, Prov of Huela Salt Lake City Between Sambaya and Vohemas Nr Salt Lake City NorthSalem, NY Nr El Orti- gal,Tenerife Nr Panama City • Legaspi, Philippines Totals Fatalities* Pass. 24 (24) 3 (4) > 35 (36) 21 (21) 7 (9) 5 (5)12 (12) — 1 ^o* (30) 53 (55) 25 (25) 41 (83) 3 (5) '0 (10) (45) 28 (28) 3 (3) 846 Crew 6 (6) 4 (4) 1 (1) t 3 (3) 9 (9) 2 (2) 4 (4) . (1) (3) 8 (8) — (6) 5 (7) 5 (5) (6) 1 (1) 3 (3) (5) 4 (4) 4 (4) 2 (3) Circumstances Crashed into lake on initial approach to O'Hare, Chicago Possible lightning strike during posi- tioning flight Believed hit by Viet Cong gunfire after take-off Hit high ground on let-down to Anti- gua Crashed on civil supply-d ropping flight Mid-air collision with light plane Supply dropping flight. Fatalities included 5 ejection Crashed after take- offCrashed on run- way after initiating overshoot in poor visibility Struck hillside dur- ing night approach in bad weather Fire after heavy landing short of runway Hit hillside Forced landing after mid-air collision with TWA Boeing 707, which waslanded safely Hit hillside soon after take-off from Los Rodeos Air- port, Tenerife Crashed on cargo flight about 25 miles from Tocu- men Airport, Panama Overshot runway on landing
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