Aircraft Accidents
By Michael FaginGeneral Info, Weather for PilotsComments are offAircraft accidents are less likely to occur today than years ago and this is the case even with the growing number of aircraft in operation. From 1959 to 2008 there were 27,877 onboard fatalities and comparing the same statistic for 1999 to 2008 there were 4717 fatalities. Certainly good news.
The Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO), a non-government organization based in Geneva showed the same trend. Just comparing 2000 to 2012 number of fatalities went from 1582 in 2000 to 794 in 2012. For additional information on data to this site