Record Safety Results

At one accident for every 1.6 billion flights, the 2010 accident rate for Western-built jet aircraft was the lowest in aviation history.

• The 2010 global accident rate of 0.61 was a 14% improvement on the 2009 rate of 0.71.
• IATA member airlines outperformed the industry average with a Western-built jet hull loss rate of 0.2

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• While still the most common cause of accidents, IATA members have reduced their runway excursion accidents by 43% since 2008.
• A major new update to IATA’s Runway Excursion Risk Reduction (RERR) toolkit will soon be available.

• Some 430 different organizations and 50% of IATA members are submitting information to the Global Safety Information Center, launched last year.

• For full details, see the IATA Safety Report