ACCIDENT SAFETY DATA Flight Safety Foundation 2022 Safety Report
In its analysis, the Foundation reviewed data on airliner and corporate accidents that occurred in 2022 and compared it to data from the prior five-year period (2017–2021). Among airliners, we looked at passenger and cargo operations only; accidents that occurred in training and ferry flights are not included in the analysis. When it came to corporate jet accident analysis, however, we looked at all types of operations.
Introduction Five high-risk accident types accounted for 56 percent of airliner (14 or more pax) accidents in 2022 and in the six years since 2017, according to an analysis of data drawn from Flight Safety Foundation’s Aviation Safety Network (ASN) database
Over the past several years, runway excursions often have been the most common accident type, but in 2022, turbulence-related accidents were the most frequent, followed by excursions and ground damage accidents.
In the five-year 2017–2021 period, there were 605 accidents, of which 75 were fatal accidents, or an average of 15 per year. As a result of those fatal accidents, there were 1,397 fatalities among passengers and crew and 43 ground fatalities.
Corporate Jets The Foundation also analyzed corporate jet accidents contained in the ASN database. In 2022, there were 35 corporate jet accidents. In 2021, there were 40 corporate jet accidents, and the average during the 2017–2021 period was 31.6 per year. Ten accidents recorded in 2022 occurred during private operations, seven in executive operations, five in ferry/positioning operations and five in nonscheduled passenger operations. The majority (20) of corporate jet accidents occurred during the landing phase of flight.
Five of the 35 corporate jet accidents in 2022 were fatal accidents, resulting in 17 fatalities among passengers and crew and one ground fatality. The year’s worst fatal accident occurred on June 22, when a Learjet 55C crashed while on approach to Charallave-Óscar Machado Zuloaga Airport in Venezuela. Six passengers and crew were killed in the accident.
In the five-year 2017–2021 period, corporate jets were involved in 158 accidents. Of that total, 35 were fatal accidents resulting in 132 fatalities among passengers and crew and two people on the ground. The worst fatal accident in the period occurred on May 5, 2019, when a Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 601-3A crashed in desert terrain during a flight from Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., to Monterrey, Mexico. All 13 passengers and crew were killed.
In the six years from 2017 through 2022, 108 of the corporate jet accidents, or more than 55 percent, occurred during the landing phase of flight.
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