Canada: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its annual airline safety report, confirming the widely held belief that airline travel is getting safer.
All the primary safety indicators improved against 2018 figures and against the 2014-18 average.
The safety report says there were 53 airline accidents in 2019 with accident rate per million flights at 1.13 or one accident every 884,000 flights.
In 2018, there were 62 airline accidents, an accident rate of 1.36 per million flights or one accident every 733,000 flights.
Between 2014 and 2018, there were 63.2 airline accidents annually, an accident rate of 1.56 per million flights or one accident every 640,000 flights.
