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FLIGHT International, 5 January 1967 Bad Year for Air Safety WITH ABOUT 1,150 passengers killed in air transport acci-dents on scheduled and non-scheduled flights, and with more than 970 killed in 30 accidents on scheduled services, 1966 was a bad year for air safety. Even though the increased traffic makes the statistical fatality rates appear to be less alarmingly high than the bald fatality totals, the fact remains that safety has taken a backward step during a year in which it was especially important that earlier improvements should be maintained—if only because the decision was made to go ahead with the development and production of the really big capacity jets. Of the 36 fatal air transport accidents (30 on scheduled services) about 12 happened on the approach or while over- shooting and a high proportion of these, and of the 12 en route accidents, were the result of striking high ground. It is too early to print positive figures (the reports of some accidents give insufficient information), but in about ten of the 36 acci- dents (27 per cent) the aircraft appear to have been in the wrong place and/or at the wrong height. Structural failure accounted for three accidents; mid-air collision accounted for one (involving the loss of two aircraft); and sabotage for another. Using ICAO estimates for last year's traffic and associated figures, the accident and fatality rates in scheduled operations during 1966 were much worse than those for 1965. Taking first the standard (and unsatisfactory) yardstick of fatalities per 100 million passenger-miles, the figure works out at 0.69 by comparison with 0.55 for 1965. For this figure we have assumed a world passenger-mile total of 141,000 million and a passenger-fatality total of 971 in accidents on scheduled services. This fatality total takes into account, as a scheduled acci- dent, the Aerocondor crash on December 18; although the aircraft was leased, it appears to have been operated as an extra section on the carrier's scheduled Miami - Bogota service. The listing does not, however, include the 26 passengers on a DC-3 which, at the time of going to press, was still missing in central Colombia. Assuming 30 scheduled accidents and a world mileage of 2,740 million, the accident rate per 100 million miles flown is nearly 1.1 by comparison with 0.94 in 1965. A more directly practical yardstick is that of fatalities per million passengers carried. A record 202 million passengers were carried in 1966. It might be said, therefore, that there were 202 million passenger journeys. The fatality rate was, therefore, about 4.8 for every million passenger journeys. The 1965 figure was 5.4—so on this basis the passenger's risk was less in 1966. Finally, it might be practical to make an approximate assess- ment of the risks per sector flown. ICAO figures give the average number of miles flown per passenger as about 700. This may ibe, approximately, the average stage distance for the world's scheduled services—which means that, using a total •mileage flown of 2,740 million, about 4 million stages were operated. There was, on this basis, one fatal accident for every 140,000 stages flown, and one passenger fatality for every 4,100 stages. The 1965 figures were about 150,000 and 5,300 respectively. Date Jan 1 Jan 2 Jan 15 Jan 22 Jan 22 an 24 Jan 28 Feb 2 Feb 4 Feb 7 Feb 13 Feb 17 Feb 18 Mar 4 Mar 5 Mar 10 Mar 10 Mar 18 April 22 April 27June 29 July 4 July 29 Aug 6 Aug II? Aug 13 Aug 21 Aug 26 Sept 1 Sept 16 Sept 22 Sept 22 Oct 2 Nov 6 Nov 9 Nov 13 Nov 15 Nov 20 Nov 22 Nov 24 Dec 1Cec 10 Dec 18 Carrier Garuda do BC Air Lines Avianca Cohata Strathallan* Air India Lufthansa PIA Air Nippon IAC IAC Aeroflot* BIAS* CPAL BOAC TMA Pacific Western Misrair American Flyers* LANSA PAL Air NZ* Elivie Braniff Tarom Aeronaves* Alaska-Coastal JAL* Britannia* Iberia/Spantax Avianca* Ansett ANA West Coast Air Mali* Britten-Norman* Air Nippon PAA* Piedmont* Aden TABSO t PIA* Aerocondor AIR CARRIER FATAL Aircraft DC-3 DC-3 Goose DC-4 DC-3 Aztec* B707 CV440 S-61 B727 F.27 Caravelle Tu-114 DC-6B DC-8 B707 DC-6B Goose An-24B Electra L-749 DC-3 DC-8-50 Agusta-Bell (helicopter) One-Eleven11-18 DC-8 Goose CV88C Britannia DC-3 DC-4 Viscount DC-9 11-14 BN-2YS-II B727 M 404 DC-3 11-18 Catalina S-61 L-1049 Location South Sumatra do Vancouver Airport Cartegena, Colombia Nr Port au Prince, Haiti Nr Inverness Mt Blanc Bremen Faridpur, E. Pakistan Tokyo Bay Kashmir New Delhi Moscow Malpensa, Milan Tokyo Nr Mt Fujiyama North of Athens Nr Prince Rupert, BCCairo Ardmore, Okl En route, Lima-Cuzco Mundoro Is, Philippines Auckland Naples Bay Nr Falls City, Nebraska Rumania Acapulco, Mexico Nr Juneau, Alaska Tokyo Airport Ljubljana, Jugoslavia Nr Teneriffe Bogota Airport Nr Winton, Queensland Nr Portland, Oregon Austrian Alps Nr Sneek. Holland Nr Matsuyama, Japan Nr Berlin New Bern, N. Carolina 130 miles E. of Aden Nr Bratislava Nr Pedrera, Amazon Nr Dacca, E. Pakistan Bogota Airport Total* ACCIDENTS, Fatal itias Pa** 13 13 2 52 23 1 106 42 20 126 33 1 8 ii113 6 25 76 43 22 2 38 24 8 92 1 20 13 1 45 25 76 6 18 1,149 Craw 44 1 4 7 II 4 37 4 13 4 9 II 5 5 6 6 4 2 1 4 t 6 1 5 6 2 4 5 7 1 5 3 3 3 8 31 3 185 + Total occupants Pass 13 13 8 60 28 1 106 42 21126 33 1 +8+ 62 113 625 92 43 24 2 38 24 + 8 110 24 20 13 — 1 45 25 76 8 53 1,272+ Crew 4 4 2 4 7 | II 4 37 4 j 13 + 4 9 1 1 5 1 5 6 6 4 5 1 4 1 6 1 5 / 3 2 4 5 7 1 5 3 3 3 8 3 2 7 200+ 1966 Circumstances >Mid-air collision. Hit ground on approach in snowstorm. Crashed into sea after take-off. Crashed after take-off in bad weather Hit ground in poor visibility Hit high ground at start of let-down to Geneva. Crashed on approach. Bird strike on rotor blade. Descended into sea on approach. Hit high ground. Crash landed and burnt. Crashed on take-off on snowbound runway. Crashed on approach in bad weather. Hit obstruction on approach. Broke up in air. Hie high ground. Crashed en route in bad weather.Crashed on night approach in sandstorm. Crashed on second overshoot Hit high ground. Hit high ground en route. Crashed on training take-off. Crashed in sea. Broke up in squall conditions. En route from Brasov to Mamaia. Hit high ground on training flight. Crashed on glacier. Crashed on training take-off. Hit ground on approach. Ditched after engine failure. Crashed after take-off on cargo flight. Engine fire en route Hit high ground. Hit high ground. Structural failure in bad weatherCrashed in sea after landing overshoot. Crashed on approach to Tegel Airport on cargo flight. Crashed en route on positioning flight. Believed bomb sabotage. Hit high ground when off track after take-off. No information.Crashed on training flight. Crashed on approach in bad weather (leased aircraft and crew) * Non-scheduled, training and other flights.
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