Accident Statistics
Europe -
EASA Member
States
Reinhard G. Menzel
Safety Analysis Manager
European Aviation Safety Agency
Overview
General – worldwide accident rates
Air transport
GA
Light aircraft
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General – Rate of fatal accidents – fw
scheduled air transport – 2002-2007
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Safety trends – scheduled ops
Fatal Accident Rate EASA MS and Foreign Registered
aircraft (Scheduled Passenger Operations per 10,000,000 Flights)
EASA MS Registered Aircraft
Foreign Registered Aircraft
10 Linear (EASA MS Registered Aircraft)
Linear (Foreign Registered Aircraft)
8
6
4
2
0
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
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Safety trends, aeroplanes
– all commercial ops -
Fatal Accidents EASA MS and rest of the World (1998- 2007)
80 80
Fatal Accide nts EASA M S Re gis te re d
Fatal Accide nts Fore ign Re gis te re d
70 10 Fore ign Re gis te re d 3-ye ar Ave rage 70
10 EASA M S 3-ye ar Ave rage
6 8
2
60 5 60
6 3
Number of Fatal Accidents
3
50 50
6
40 40
30 58 60 30
56 56 57
53 53
48
43
20 20
36
10 10
0 0
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
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Safety trends, helicopters
– all commercial ops -
Fatal accidents EASA MS and Foreign Helicopters
25
Fatal Accidents EASA MS Registered
Fatal Accidents Foreign Registered
Foreign Registered 3-year Average
EASA MS 3-year Average
20
1
2 2 4
Number of Fatal Accidents
15
3
2
5
4
0
10
16 16 16
15
13 3
12
5 10
9
8
5
0
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
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Commercial Air Transport –
Accident Categories – EASA MS
Accident Categories- Commercial Air Transport (1998-2007)
RI-A
MAC
AMAN
Fatal Accidents
TURB
Non-Fatal Accidents
GCOL
CABIN
RI-VAP
FUEL
WSTRW
LOC-G
SEC
USOS
ADRM
F-NI
ATM
EVAC
ARC
ICE
OTHR
UNK
RAMP
RE
SCF-NP
F-POST
SCF-PP
LOC-I
CFIT
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
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Commercial Air Transport –
helicopters : accident categories
Fatal accidents by Accident Category
1998-2007
60
Foreign Registered EASA MS Registered
7
50
40
7
30
50
4
20
27
3
10 3
3
16
1
0 1
7 0
6 5 4 4 0 0 1 1 1
3 2
0 1 1 0 0 0
UNK CFIT LOC-I OTHR LALT SCF-NP SCF-PP RAMP MAC LOC-G ADRM ARC AMAN F-POST SEC
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Light aeroplanes
accident categories
Fixed wing aircraft below 2250 kg
accidents, EASA States, 2006
F-NI 10
LALT 15
CFIT 19
USOS 20
UNK 20
MAC 25
FUEL 35
OTHR 46
GCOL 51
SCF-NP 70
LOC-G 72
LOC-I 85
RE 104
SCF-PP 115
ARC 143
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
number of accidents 2006
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Distribution of accidents
all aircraft
type of operation – 2006-2007
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Distribution of accidents
aircraft category – 2006-2007
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Summary
Commercial transport fw operations
downward trend of accident numbers and rates
In line with rest of the world
Relatively complete data
Commercial transport helicopter
Flat trend – no improvement
Frequently no causal data at hand
Most important category “unknown”
General aviation Europe
Majority of the fatal accidents (87%)
Majority of the fatalities (65%)
No complete accident data at hand
Causal information incomplete
No historic trends at hand
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Any
Questions
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