Commercial Plane Crash Deaths Dropped 50% In 2019 Written 2 January 2020

Reuters reports that Dutch aviation consulting firm To70 said that 87 accidents involving large commercial planes around the world in 2019 resulted in 257 fatalities, a significant drop from the 160 accidents and 534 deaths in 2018. While the aviation industry focused “on so-called ‘future threats’ such as drones,” the crashes involving the 737 MAX “are a reminder that we need to retain our focus on the basics that make civil aviation so safe: well-designed and well-built aircraft flown by fully informed and well-trained crews.” The drop occurred “despite a high-profile Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia in March,” which accounted for more than half of the airline deaths last year.
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