EASA Annual Safety Review

http://www.easa.europa.eu/ws_prod/g/doc/COMMS/RZ_EASA_Annual_low_090811.pdf

This Annual safety review (ASR) presents statistics on European and worldwide civil aviation safety. The statistics are grouped according to type of operation, for instance commercial air transport, and aircraft category, such as aeroplanes, helicopters and gliders.

The safety record shows that the number of fatal accidents in commercial air transport remained at the level of 2007 (three) and is one of the lowest in the decade. In 2008, only 5.5 per cent of all fatal accidents in commercial air transport worldwide occurred with airplanes registered in a Member State of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA MS). Set against the world average, the fatal accident rate of scheduled passenger operations in Europe is low. The number of fatal accidents in helicopter commercial air transport operations in Europe was two, up from one in 2007, but below the ten year average of three.