During the first days of April, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) published the 2019 security report, where greater improvements for airport security have been detailed; it is considered that they are now more effective in relation to the reports from previous years.
Based on this, it is observed that there was a significant change compared to the previous five years, showing that all safety indicators had an improvement, mainly in the number of accidents, because there were nine fewer than the previous year and would be ten less in relation to the previous five years.
The general director and CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) explained that for the airport sector, the main thing is passengers and crew, which is why they must ensure their safety and well-being within the facilities.
In the article: “Importance of security in commercial airports” we have exposed the importance of airport security and its regulations.
Number of accidents in 2019
Previously we have mentioned that there was a decrease in the total number of accidents in 2019, according to the IATA report, only 53 were registered and in 2018 there were 62, of these, 8 have been fatal accidents, while in 2018 11 cases were reported, therefore, a decrease is also evident. This is why the CEO has commented that for a person to suffer an incident, he must at least board a flight daily for approximately 535 years.
Jet helmet loss rate (per million departures)
According to the report presented, the loss rate of the jet helmet also had improvement when compared to previous years, because globally the digit obtained was 0.15 and during the 2014-2018 period it was 0.24; the greatest change can be observed in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEI) because during the five-year block they had 1.08 and for the report, it obtained 2.21.
Percentage loss by region over the turboprop hull (per million departures)
Like the points mentioned above, IATA stated that the number of cases due to the turboprop hull decreased, although there was an exception in Latin America and the Caribbean because no difference was seen. For 2019 they mention that 41.5% of all accidents were related to turboprop aircraft.
IOSA data for 2019
The IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) stated in the report that the airlines registered in its system had better results in terms of accidents than those that did not, in fact, indicate that it was almost twice as good because the numbers obtained were 0.92 vs.1.63.
In addition, it also had an improvement in the comparison of the 2014-18 period, the data presented compared 1.03 vs. 2.71. There are currently 439 registered with IOSA of the 139 not registered with IATA; therefore, all IATA members are requested to maintain their IOSA registration.
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