Worldwide Airline Accident Analysis

Airlines are a widely used mode of transportation throughout the world. Currently, over 16,000 jet aircraft are being used around the world, with over 17 million departures per year [6]. A study of worldwide scheduled commercial jet operations during the period 1959-2001 indicates that there were a total of 1,307 accidents, resulting in 24,700 onboard fatalities [6,14], By type of operation, these 1307 accidents can be classified as follows [6]  

The collective U.S. and Canadian component of these 1,307 accidents was around 34% (i.e., 445 accidents), which contributed about 25% (6,077) of the worldwide 24,700 onboard fatalities [6]. A study of the 1959-2001 accident data indicates that the world commercial jet fleet accident rate (i.e., accidents per million departures) has been fairly stable for the period 1974-2001 [14]. Additional information on the subject is available in the literature [6,14]. 

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