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Fact Sheet - Safety

Safety

  • Safety is air transport’s number one priority 
  • For 2011 the industry Western-built jet hull loss rate was 0.37 per million sectors flown
    • 61% improvement in the accident rate over the last 10 years
    • IATA member airline accident rate was 0.41
  • IATA’s six point safety program encompasses safety data management and analysis, safety management systems, flying operations, maintenance operations, infrastructure safety and safety auditing (IOSA/ISAGO) 


 Hull losses /Million Sectors
Western-built jets, IATA & Non-IATA
 

Year Hull loss rate                                                            
2002 0.94
2003 0.87
2004 0.80
2005 0.77
2006 0.65
2007 0.75
2008 0.81
2009        0.71
2010 0.61
2011  0.37

Regional Industry Accident rates
Western-built jets - IATA and non-IATA
Hull Losses/million sectors

Region 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Africa 4.31 4.09 2.12 9.94 7.41 3.27
Asia Pacific 0.67 2.76 0.58 0.86 0.80 0.25
Russia & CIS 8.60 0.00 6.43 0.00 0.00 1.06
Europe 0.32 0.29 0.42 0.45 0.45 0.00
Latin America 1.80 1.61 2.55 0.00 1.87 1.28
MENA 0.00 1.08 1.89 3.32 0.72 2.02
North America 0.49 0.09 0.58 0.41 0.10 0.10
North Asia 0.00 0.88 0.00 0.00 0.34 0.00
Industry 0.65 0.75 0.81 0.71 0.61 0.37

Summary of Accidents
IATA and non-IATA airlines

Accident Summary
(IATA and non-IATA airlines)		 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Fatal Accidents 20 20 23 18 23 22
Fatalities* 855 692 502 685 786 486

*Fatalities include deaths due to injuries sustained in an accident up to 30 days later (ICAO/IATA definition)

Operational Safety Audit (IOSA)

  • First global industry standard for airline operational safety auditing
    • Assesses airline operational management and control systems
  • Improves safety and reduces the number of redundant audits performed
  • Audit standards developed in cooperation with regulatory bodies including US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Transport Canada, Europe’s Joint Aviation Authority
  • IATA oversees the accreditation of audit and training organizations, continually develops standards and recommended practices and manages the central database
  • IATA is promoting the use of IOSA in national safety oversight programs
    • Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Egypt, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mexico, Panama, Syria, and Turkey have mandated IOSA
  • IOSA has been ISO 9001:2000 registered

IOSA - Condition of Membership

  • IOSA is a condition of IATA membership
  • Any airline wishing to join IATA must first complete IOSA
    • All existing members must be on the IOSA registry
  • As of 31 March 2009, all IATA members are IOSA-registered.
    • 21 airlines resigned or lost membership from IATA owing to their inability to complete the IOSA audit and/or close findings
  • 1319 audits completed to date since program roll-out September 2003
  • 369 airlines are on the IOSA Registry including 239 IATA members, 130 non-members
  • Industry savings of $134 million in audits avoided (2436 audits avoided)

Global Safety Information Center (GSIC)

  • GSIC is an integral part of IATA’s safety programs
    • Designed to provide IATA members with unprecedented access to IATA safety, security, and facilitation databases
  • Officially launched in April 2010, it now encompasses the largest database in the world of operational safety reports. It is the only global digital database of safety events (Flight Data eXchange - FDX), pilot and cabin crew operational safety reports, aircraft ground damage events, IOSA and ISAGO data.  
  • More than 415 different aviation organizations contribute data to these operational databases, with substantial expansion and new databases in development in 2012

Updated: March 2012


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