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FLIGHT international, 16 January 1969 Air safety : a "Flight" special feature continued) 1968: the overall safety picture N EARLY TWO YEARS AGO ICAO suggested in its annual report for 1966 that passengers killed on scheduled services during any year in this decade would vary within 200 of an average of 750 per year. Last year was one in which the average 'reached a peak of 918. The total of all fatalities on scheduled and non-scheduled flights (passengers and crew) was 1,262. These figures compare with 672 and 1,155 respectively for the previous year, so that although the number of passengers killed on scheduled services has increased by 36.6 per cent, the total number of fatalities has risen by only 9.25 per cent. Using the conventional yardsticks, which apply to scheduled services only and are based on the ICAO estimate of 191,500 million passenger-miles flown in 1968, the rate of fatalities per 100 million passenger-miles was 0.48 compared with 0.40 in 1967. The total number of fatal accidents was 34 in 1968, four more than in the previous year. Fatal accidents per 100 million miles flown were 0.90 (against 0.88 in 1967) and the rate per 100,000 aircraft hours was 0.30 (1967: 0.28). As we show in the previous article, the number of jet losses during 1968 (19) was the highest ever, even discounting the aircraft destroyed at Beirut by Israeli military action on December 28. It is a reflection on improving passenger- survival techniques that of 12 total-loss accidents to jets, only nine involved fatalities. Although the number of accidents on scheduled services has risen, the overall total is down from 55 in 1967 to 49 in 1968, reflecting the improvement in safety level of non- scheduled services and training flights. These dropped from 22 in 1967 to 17 last year. The only British non-scheduled fatal accident was the one involving three passengers and three crew on the BKS Ambassador which had fatigue failure of FATAL ACCIDENTS, SCHEDULED SERVICES 1968 Da Jan Jan Feb Feb Feb Mar Mar Mar Mar Apr Apr Apr Apr May May May June July Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Sept Oct Oct Oct Nov Nov Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec te 15 27 7 17 24 5 9 16 24 8 8 10 20 3 22 28 13 8 2 9 10 14 18 II 8 II 25 12 23 2 12 24 27 31 Carrier United Arab Air Comores Canadian Pacific Civil Air Transport Royal Air Lao Air France Air Manila Turkish Airlines Aer Lingus BOAC Ladeco Aerovias Rojas SA South African Airways Braniff Los Angeles Garuda Pan American Saudi Arabian Alitalia British Eagle Piedmont Aviation Los Angeles United Arab Air Inter Aerovias del Valle CSA Northeast Airlines Cia Tabasquena Cable Commuter Airlines Wien Consolidated Pan American Allegheny North Central Mac.Robertson Miller (on charter from Ansett) Aircraft DC-3 Heron Boeing 707(N79IS) Boeing 727 (B-I0IB) DC-3 Boeing 707 (F-BLCJ) F.27 (PI-C-B7I) Viscount Viscount (EI-AOM) Boeing 707 (G-ARWE) DC-3 (CC-CBM) DC-3 Boeing 707 (ZS-EUW) Electra (N9707C) S-6IL(N303Y) Coronado (PK-GJA) Boeing 707 (N798PA) Convair 340 (HZ-AAZ) DC-8-40 (l-DIWF) Viscount 700 (G-ATFN) Fairchild Hiller227 S-6IL(N-300Y) An-24 (SU-AOL) Caravelle (F-BOHB) B-N Islander (TI-I063-C) 11-14 FH-227 (N-380N) DC-3(>) DHC Twin Otter (N-7666) F-27 (N-4905) B.707 (N-494 PA) Convair 580 Convair 580 (N-2045) Viscount 700 (VH.RMQ) Location Nile Delta Moroni, Comoro Is. Vancouver Linkow, near Taipei River Mekong, nr Ban Napa Mt Soufriere. Guadeloupe Off Panay Is. Philippines Over Sea of Marmara Irish Sea, off Rosslare Heathrow, London Nr Coyhaique, South Chile 35 miles NW of Mexico City Windhoek. SW Africa Dawson, Texas Paramount City, Cal Bombay Calcutta Airport Bahrain Nr. Malpensa, Milan North of Munich Charleston, W.Va Compton. LA 180 miles north of Port Said 12 miles SSW Cap d'Antibes, France Puerto Cortes, Costa Rica Nr Prague Airport Lebanon, NH, USA Tabasco, Mexico Orange County Airport, Calif. Lake Spotsy, Alaska. Ten miles from Mai- quetia Airport, Caracas, Venezuela Bradford, Pa„ USA. O'Hare, Chicago. Near Port Hedland. WA. Australia Totals , Fatalities Pass C 14 - 18 34 49 9 — 57 4 33 14 127 79 20 15 5 8 12 44 31 18 33 B9 9 8 30 10 7 37 42 IS 26 21 9I8(>) rew 4 2 1 3 3 14 5 1 4 1 3 4 12 5 3 14 1 3 4 3 3 7 6 1 3 2 2 2 3 9 2 5 38(0 Total Occupants Pass Crew 14 52 52 34 49 9 49 57 115 33 14 132 79 20 15 53 8 85 44 34 18 33 89 9 37 39 10 7 37 42 44 41 21 1,375 4 2 9 II 3 14 5 5 4 II 3 4 12 5 3 14 10 3 10 4 3 3 7 6 1 3 3 2 2 3 9 3 4 5 190 Circumstances Cargo flight, Cairo-Beirut. Crashed 40min after take-off. Hit landing light in gusts and stalled: crashed into sea. Left runway after landing in fog; hit building. One person killed on ground. A/c leased from Standard Airways. Crashed 7 miles west of Taipei on descent. Crashed while flying low up River Mekong en route from Luang Prabang to Sayaboury. Hit mountain on approach. "Exploded" over sea. Training captain sucked out when re-latching door. Broke up during cruise at 17,000ft. Compressor disc failure in No 2 engine. Escaping fuel caught Fire. A/c destroyed by fire after landing. Dived into ground during initial approach: Turbulence? Hit 12,000ft mountain in storm when 15 miles off track. Lost height following flap retraction after take-off and struck ground. Mid-air break-up in turbulence- Rotor failure during cruise: broke up. Crashed after take-off. Undershot in heavy rain: caught fire, and destroyed. On approach in poor visibility. Struck high ground on approach to Malpensa, Milan: Broke up in air; cause so far uncertain. Crashed on final approach in poor visibility. Main rotor blade spindle failure. Crashed in sea: cause unknown. Crashed in Mediterranean on flight from Ajaccio, Corsica, to Nice after fire reported in one engine. On approach. After take-off. Struck 2,700 ft mountain during descent Unsuccessful bad-weather forced landing. Attempted landing in fog; crashed on freeway. Broke up in air. Dived into sea in flames while on approach. Struck ground on approach in snowstorm. Hit hangar after attempted overshoot at night. Broke up soon after start of descent to Port Hedland.
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