COMMERCIAL AVIATION FATALITIES
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Commercial Air Fatalities (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Commercial air fatalities include those arising from accidents of planes providing
passenger and/or cargo services to the public, including large air carriers, commuter
air, and air taxi. Commercial air includes scheduled and nonscheduled service
by air carriers operating under 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 121 and 14
CFR 135.
| Fatalities |
8 |
5 |
| Commerical aviation fatalities percent change from same month previous year |
-33 |
-38 |
NOTE: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the
previous year to account for seasonality.
Fatalities from the four hijacked airplanes deliberately crashed in terrorist
acts on September 11, 2001 are not included by the source in the September 2001
data. The number of people who perished on the four planes was 266. The total
number of people confirmed dead (on ground and plane) are 2,929, 54 are reported
dead and 24 are reported missing.
The November 2001 fatalities are due to the November 12 crash of an American
Airline plane in Belle Harbor, New York, and resulted in 275 fatalities (including
5 people on ground).
SOURCE: National Transportation Safety Board, Office of Aviation Safety, available
at: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/curr_mo.txt
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