“Despite the challenges of coping with Covid-19, the airline industry has generally maintained its expected high level of safety,” says Paul Hayes, Cirium’s safety director. “Based on the fatal accident rate, 2020 was the second safest year ever, only narrowly being beaten by 2015.”
Cirium’s criteria are slightly different from FlightGlobal’s, in that they do not include those accidents which were caused by “acts of violence”, whereas FlightGlobal considers all risks. Finally, Cirium includes only turboprop and jet-powered aircraft.
BAD PLANNING
Among the four fatal jet accidents in 2020, three were the result of poorly planned and badly executed approaches in serviceable aircraft in conditions that should not have been a problem for the crews. These involved a Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 at Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen airport on 5 February, a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Airbus A320 in Karachi on 22 May, and an Air India Express 737-800 at Kozhikode-
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LONDON, Jan 28 European regulators yesterday lifted a 22-month ban on flights of the Boeing 737 MAX after a design and pilot training overhaul in the wake of crashes that killed 346 people.
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) confirmed a provisional approval given in November, but dropped calls for an extra flight-angle sensor to back up a system implicated in crashes.
“Let me be quite clear that this journey does not end here,” Executive Director Patrick Ky said in a statement.
A modified version of the Boeing 737 Max, incorporating multiple safety upgrades, has been approved to resume flights in Europe, following nearly two years of reviews after the aircraft was involved in two deadly crashes that saw the planes grounded worldwide, the European aviation safety agency said yesterday.