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FAA Safety FiguresBy Patrick Mondout
Here are air safety figures from the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) for the year 1975-1996. These figures include only domestic flights.
| Year |
Accidents |
Fatalities |
Aircraft
Hours Flown
(000) |
Accident
rates per
100,000 Aircraft Hours |
| Total |
Fatal |
Total |
Fatal |
| 1975 |
31 |
2 |
122 |
5,423 |
0.57 |
0.04 |
| 1976 |
22 |
2 |
38 |
5,588 |
0.39 |
0.04 |
| 1977 |
21 |
3 |
78 |
5,801 |
0.36 |
0.05 |
| 1978 |
21 |
5 |
160 |
6,032 |
0.35 |
0.08 |
| 1979 |
24 |
4 |
351 |
6,700 |
0.36 |
0.06 |
| 1980 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
6,798 |
0.22 |
0.00 |
| 1981 |
25 |
4 |
4 |
6,571 |
0.38 |
0.06 |
| 1982 |
16 |
4 |
234 |
6,698 |
0.22 |
0.05 |
| 1983 |
22 |
4 |
15 |
6,915 |
0.32 |
0.06 |
| 1984 |
13 |
1 |
4 |
7,736 |
0.17 |
0.01 |
| 1985 |
17 |
4 |
197 |
8,265 |
0.21 |
0.05 |
| 1986 |
21 |
2 |
5 |
9,495 |
0.21 |
0.01 |
| 1987 |
32 |
4 |
231 |
10,115 |
0.31 |
0.03 |
| 1988 |
28 |
3 |
285 |
10,521 |
0.26 |
0.02 |
| 1989 |
24 |
8 |
131 |
10,598 |
0.23 |
0.08 |
| 1990 |
22 |
6 |
39 |
11,525 |
0.19 |
0.05 |
| 1991 |
25 |
4 |
62 |
11,139 |
0.22 |
0.04 |
| 1992 |
16 |
4 |
33 |
11,732 |
0.14 |
0.03 |
| 1993 |
22 |
1 |
1 |
11,981 |
0.18 |
0.01 |
| 1994 |
19 |
4 |
239 |
12,292 |
0.15 |
0.03 |
| 1995 |
34 |
2 |
166 |
12,777 |
0.27 |
0.02 |
| 1996 |
32 |
3 |
342 |
13,188 |
0.24 |
0.02 |
Source: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
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Air Safety References:
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in the Air: Mysterious Air Disasters Explained. Airlife Publishing:
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Cushing, Steven. Fatal
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Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997.
Faith, Nicholas. Black
Box: The Air-Crash Detectives-Why Air Safety Is No Accident.
Motorbooks International, 1997.
Gero, David. Aviation
Disasters: The World's Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950.
Sutton, 2003.
Job, Macarthur. Air
Disaster (Volume 1). Aerospace Publications: Fyshwick, Australia,
1995.
Job, Macarthur. Air
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Job, Macarthur. Air
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1999.
Krause, Shari Stamford. Aircraft
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Hill, New York, 1996.
Macpherson, Malcolm. The
Black Box : All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts Of In-flight Accidents.
New York: William Morrow, 1998.
Macpherson, Malcolm. On
a Wing and a Prayer: Interviews with Airline Disaster Survivors.
Perennial, 2002.
Owen, David. Air
Accident Investigation, 2nd Edition. Motorbooks International, 2002.
Stewart, Stanley. Emergency!
- Crisis on the Flight Deck, 2nd Edition. Airlife Publishing, England,
2003.
Walters, James M. Aircraft
Accident Analysis: Final Reports. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2000.
Wells, Alexander T. Commercial
Aviation Safety, 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001.
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