tatistics[edit]

Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO)[edit]

The Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO), a non-government organization based
in Geneva, compiles statistics on aviation accidents of aircraft capable of carrying more than
six passengers, excluding helicopters, balloons, and combat aircraft. Note that ACRO only
considers accidents in which the aircraft has suffered such damage that it is removed from
service, which will further reduce the statistics for incidents and fatalities compared to some
other data.[46]
According to ACRO, recent years have been considerably safer for aviation, with fewer than
140 accidents every year between 2009 and 2013, compared to as many as 211 as recently
as 1999.[47]
Annual fatalities have been less than 1,000 in six of the ten years since 2004, with 2013
experiencing the lowest number of fatalities, at 265, since the end of World War II. The
nearly 3,000 deaths associated with the September 11 attacks escalated 2001 to a total of
4,140 deaths, the most since the end of World War II.

Reconstructed wreckage of TWA Flight 800

Year

Deaths[48]

# of accidents[49]

2014

1,088

2013

265

138

2012

794

119

2011

828

117

2010

1,115

130

2009

1,103

122

2008

884

156

2007

971

147

2006

1,294

166

2005

1,459

185

2004

771

172

2003

1,230

199

2002

1,413

185

2001

4,140

200

2000

1,582

189

1999

1,138

211

Air accident fatalities recorded by ACRO 19182009 Air accident incidents recorded by ACRO 19182009

Annual Aviation Safety Review (EASA) [edit]

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is tasked by Article 15(4) of Regulation (EC)
No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of February 20, 2008 to provide
an annual review of aviation safety.