Description

The UK CAA maintains an ‘Accident Analysis Group’ (AAG) which has been in existence since 1996 when it was the origin of UK CAA CAP 681, a review of Global Fatal Accidents between 1980 and 1996.

The third Review of Global Fatal Accidents was recently published by UK CAA in CAP 1036 - Global Fatal Accident Review 2002 to 2011 which summarises a study of worldwide fatal accidents to jet and turboprop aeroplanes above 5,700kg engaged in passenger, cargo and ferry/positioning flights for the ten-year period 2002 to 2011. The style and content of the document are similar to the previous Global Fatal Accident Review (CAP 776) but there are, however, some differences and these are outlined in Appendix A (see Further Reading).

The main findings of the study are listed below.

Worldwide Fatal Accident Numbers

There were a total of 250 worldwide fatal accidents, which resulted in 7,148 fatalities to passengers and crewmembers onboard the aircraft. The proportion of aircraft occupants killed in these fatal accidents was 70%.