ANALYSIS: Pessimism dogs airline safety despite low accident rate

Airline safety previous years

Last year was yet another "safest year ever" for airlines, with a fatal accident rate of one per 4.83 million flights. There were so few passenger fatalities that the revenue passenger fatality rate, of one per 900 million passengers carried, becomes meaningless in isolation.

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