Facts & Figures
Fact Sheet - Safety
- Safety is air transport’s number one priority
- 36% improvement in the accident rate over the last 10 years
- For 2009 the industry hull loss rate was 0.71 per million sectors flown
- IATA member airline accident rate was 0.62
- IATA’s six point safety plan encompasses safety data management and analysis, safety management systems, flying operations, cargo safety, infrastructure safety and safety auditing (IOSA)
Hull losses /Million Sectors
Western-built jets, IATA & Non-IATA
| Year |
Hull loss rate |
| 1996 |
1.32 |
| 2003 |
0.87 |
| 2004 |
0.80 |
| 2005 |
0.76 |
| 2006 |
0.65
|
| 2007 |
0.75 |
| 2008 |
0.81 |
| 2009 |
0.71
|
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Regional Industry Accident rates
Western-built jets - IATA and non-IATA
Hull Losses/million sectors
| Region |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
| Africa |
9.21 |
4.31 |
4.09 |
2.12 |
9.94 |
| Asia Pacific |
1.00 |
0.67 |
2.76 |
0.58 |
0.86 |
| Russia & CIS |
0.00 |
8.60 |
0.00 |
6.43 |
0.00 |
| Europe |
0.33 |
0.32 |
0.29 |
0.42 |
0.45 |
| Latin America |
2.59 |
1.80 |
1.61 |
2.55 |
0.00 |
| MENA |
3.84 |
0.00 |
1.08 |
1.89 |
3.32 |
| North America |
0.19 |
0.49 |
0.09 |
0.58 |
0.41 |
| North Asia |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.88 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Industry |
0.76 |
0.65 |
0.75 |
0.81 |
0.71 |
Summary of Accidents
IATA and non-IATA airlines
Accident Summary
(IATA and non-IATA airlines) |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
| Fatal Accidents |
25 |
26 |
20 |
20 |
23 |
18 |
| Fatalities* |
428 |
1035 |
855 |
692 |
502 |
685 |
*Fatalities include deaths due to injuries sustained in an accident up to 30 days later (ICAO/IATA definition)
IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA)
- First global industry standard for airline operational safety auditing
- Assesses airline operational management and control systems
- Improves safety and reduces the number of audits performed
- Audit standards developed in cooperation with regulatory bodies including US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Transport Canada, Europe’s Joint Aviation Authority
- IATA oversees the accreditation of audit and training organisations, continually develops standards and recommended practices and manages the central database
- IATA is promoting the use of IOSA in national safety oversight programmes
- Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Egypt, Madagascar, Mexico, Panama, Turkey, Syria and Bahrain have mandated IOSA
- IOSA has been ISO 9001:2000 registered
IOSA Condition of Membership
- IOSA is a condition of IATA membership
- Any airline wishing to join IATA must first complete IOSA
- All existing members must be on the IOSA registry
- In all 21 airlines resigned or lost membership from IATA due to their inability to complete the IOSA audit and/or close findings
- As of March 31st, 2009, all IATA members are IOSA-registered
- 894 audits completed to date since program roll-out September 2003
- 333 airlines are on the IOSA Registry including 230 IATA members, 103 non-members
- Industry savings of $90.9 million in audits avoided (1515 audits avoided)
Global Safety Information Center (GSIC)
- Air transport industry needs more efficient access to intelligence for air and ground safety incident occurrences
- IATA has developed a prototype of the Global Safety Information Center that will serve as a web-based center for all safety-related information and tools. All data is deidentified
- The center, was launched in late 2009 and integrates safety data coming from various industry sources including IATA’s Safety Trend Evaluation, Analysis, and Data Exchange System (STEADES) and flight data analysis (FDA), IOSA, ISAGO and Security
- Data will be used to develop prevention strategies that will reduce the number of accidents/incidents
Updated: March 2010