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COMMERCIAL AVIATION FATALITIES

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

COMMERCIAL AVIATION FATALITIES

Commercial Air Fatalities (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)

Commercial Air Fatalities (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted). If you are a user with a disability and cannot view this image, please call 800-853-1351 or email answers@bts.gov for further assistance.

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.

Commercial Air    Sep-00       Sep-01   
Fatalities      6      2
Commerical aviation fatalities percent change from same month previous year -57.14 -66.67

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 that crashed in terrorist acts on September 11, 2001 are not yet included by the source in the September 2001 data. The number of people who perished in the four planes was 266. The total number of people missing and presumed to be dead from the attacks is still to be determined.

SOURCE: National Transportation Safety Board, Office of Aviation Safety, available at: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/curr_mo.txt