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AIR SAFETY & SECURITY
World Review
Edited by Dr. Todd Curtis of AirSafe.com &
AirGuideOnline.com
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Annual world review of the year's safety and
security issues , plus history, data and accident
entries in detail.
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Air Safety
and Security deals with the critical events within the last
year that have focused new attention on air safety matters,
including airline and airport security, health and other
related issues.
The events in this listing include selected fatal events
involving passengers, as well as other events that have a
significant impact on the public's awareness of airline and
aviation safety. Fatal events include any circumstance where
one or more passengers on an aircraft flight die from causes
that are directly related to the operation of that aircraft.
The fatal event may be due to an accident or due to a
deliberate act by another passenger, a crew member, or by
one or more persons not on the aircraft. These events
include sabotage, hijacking, or military action and exclude
cases where the only passenger deaths were to hijackers,
saboteurs, or stowaways.
Summary of Significant 2005 Events
In 2005, there were a total of 17 occurrences that were
considered to be significant safety events by AirSafe.com
and AirGuideOnline.com. Some of the noteworthy facts about
these events include the following:
Twelve of the 17 occurrences were considered to be fatal events as defined by AirSafe.com.
Fifteen of the 17 occurrences, including three events not considered to be fatal event as defined by AirSafe.com, involved the death of at least one person.
While five events did not constitute a fatal event as defined by AirSafe.com, three of these events were associated with a single death. In one case, a passenger who acted in a threatening manner and was killed by air marshals, a second case also involved a passenger who died in part do to the passenger behavior that was considered threatening by passengers and crew, and in a third case involved the death of someone outside of the aircraft. In the other nonfatal noteworthy events, one aircraft was slightly damaged and the other was completely destroyed.
Of the 12 occurrences considered to be fatal events as defined by AirSafe.com, nine involved large jet transports, and three involved propeller driven aircraft.
In six of 12 fatal events, all passengers and crew were killed.
There were a total of 748 passengers and 50 crew members killed in these 12 fatal events, with 38 crew members and 680 passengers among the survivors. An additional three deaths were associated with occurrences not considered to be fatal events as defined by AirSafe.com.
Of the six fatal events with survivors, two events involved the death of all crew members and over 80 percent of the passengers, while the other four fatal events resulted in the deaths of between 60 and 99 percent of the passengers.
Two of the 17 significant events also resulted in the deaths of people outside of the aircraft. In one case 47 were killed and in the other one person was killed.
Two of
these 17 significant events were related to the threatening
actions of a passenger, but none involved hijacking,
sabotage, or other deliberate actions by individuals or
groups.
Air Safety and Security will attempt to establish through
detailed analysis of the data what, if any, underlying
trends have emerged, particularly during the last five
years. Aircraft accidents are so often seen as a series of
random catastrophic events, where as we believe that the
causes - even if apparently disparate - are often
related.
Everything you would want to know about air safety!
Indispensable for the savvy traveler and a business tool for
professionals.
