AVIATION SAFETY
November 1st, 2001
BY JOHNATHAN THOMSONDESPITE the general fears about air travel sparked by the World Trade Centre disaster, commercial aviation is not only incredibly safe, but is getting safer each decade despite the considerable rise in global traffic. Tens of thousands of passenger aircraft take to the skies every day across the world, yet during the 1990's there were only 483 fatal air accidents globally. Compared with the same period in the 1970's the number of fatal accidents has fallen by 20 per cent.In many respects, the continent of Europe sets a global standard for air ...
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