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Iata: aircraft accident rate is lowest in history

Tokyo, Japan - Still room for improvement

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced the aviation safety performance for 2010 showing that the year’s accident rate for Western-built jet aircraft as the lowest in aviation history. The 2010 global accident rate (measured in hull losses per million flights of Western-built jet aircraft) was 0.61. That is equal to one accident for every 1.6 million flights. This is a significant i...

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Rome, Italy, 02/23/2011 12:45
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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