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Old January 4th, 2011, 03:31 PM posted to rec.travel.air,rec.travel.europe
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...-2010-kill-828

Air crashes kill 828 people in 2010
Death toll was 13% higher than in 2009, but overall trend is improving

Dan Milmo, transport correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 January 2011 13.16 GMT
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Firefighters at the site of the plane crash in Mangalore that killed
158 people in May. Photograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images
The global death toll from air crashes rose by 13% to 828 last year,
as the airline industry's improving reputation for safety suffered a
"disappointing" year.

Incidents in the Middle East, India and Pakistan accounted for more
than six out of 10 aviation deaths last year, as the fatal accident
rate worsened from one per 1.5m flights in 2009 - the industry's
safest year - to one in every 1.3m flights in 2010. The Ascend
consultancy, which produced the figures, said the industry had endured
a "poor" year with aircraft insurance claims reaching their highest
total of $1.1bn (£700m).

"2010 was a disappointing year from the point of view of both safety
and insurance with the number of fatal accidents and passenger
fatalities both up on recent years," said Paul Hayes, Ascend's
director of air safety. However, Hayes said the overall industry trend
was still one of improvement, with only 2009, 2007 and 2006 producing
better accident rates. The fatal accident rate in the 1990s was one
per 700,000 flights while the rate for the 2000s was one per 1.2m.

"Despite the relatively poor performance in 2010, we believe that air
safety is still improving and this has resulted in 100 fewer fatal
accidents during the last decade than in the 1990s - on average, 10
fewer fatal accidents a year," said Hayes.

The worst accident in 2010 involved an Air India Express Boeing
737-800 in May, when 158 passengers and crew were killed after the
aircraft overran on landing at the Indian city of Mangalore. The
second worst was an Airblue Airbus A321 crash in July in Islamabad,
Pakistan, that killed 152 people, followed by an Afriqiyah Airbus A330
crash in May at Tripoli airport in Libya, which claimed the lives of
103 passengers and crew. The fourth worst involved an Ethiopian
Airlines Boeing 737-800, which crashed shortly after take off from
Beirut airport and killed 90 people. These crashes accounted for 65%
of the 2010 death toll, Ascend said.
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Old January 7th, 2011, 06:01 AM posted to rec.travel.air
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wut abut all them dam birds dead in arkansas i aint flying noware nohow.

 




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