Report votes 2006 as safest year in flying

Mumbai: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its annual safety report, released last week, shows that the past year was the safest year in aviation. IATA is an international representative body of airline operators with about 260 members representing 94 percent of international scheduled air traffic.
For the Indian fliers, this good news comes at the heels of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO)interim report which suggests that the “Indian skies are amongst the safest in the world”. In another safety audit carried out by ICAO, India scored 98.3 - the highest for any 155 member countries.
For an industry that has been witnessing passenger traffic growth of about 6.8 per cent per year worldwide, the report is an important indicator, which asserts that flying is a safe mode of transportation.
According to the IATA report, the industry hull-loss (it refers to incidences where damage to the plane must be written off, or in which the plane is totally destroyed) in 2006 was 0.65 accidents per million flights for western-built jets or one accident for every 1.5 million flights.
22/04/07 Manisha Singhal/Daily News & Analysis

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