BTS | Table 2-10: U.S. Commuter Air Carrier (a) Safety Data

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Table 2-10: U.S. Commuter Air Carrier^aSafety Data

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	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total fatalities	37	37	^R6	^d77	21	24	25	9	14	46	0	12	5
Total seriously injured persons	14	^R14	11	31	7	2	^R6	^R17	2	1	2	2	7
Total accidents	38	18	15	23	^e23	16	10	12	11	16	8	13	12
Fatal	8	7	^R3	8	7	4	3	2	1	5	0	5	1
Aircraft-miles (millions)	192	301	450	434	508	555	594	550	591	^R246	51	^R46	39
Rates per 100 million aircraft-miles
Fatalities^b	19.27	12.29	^R1.33	17.74	4.13	4.32	4.21	1.64	2.37	^R18.70	0.00	^R26.09	12.82
Seriously injured persons	7.29	^R4.65	2.44	7.14	1.38	0.36	^R1.01	^R3.09	0.34	^R0.41	^R3.92	^R4.35	17.95
Total accidents^b,c	19.79	5.98	3.33	5.30	4.53	2.88	1.68	2.18	1.86	^R6.50	^R15.69	^R28.26	30.77
Fatal^b,c	4.17	2.33	^R0.67	1.84	1.38	0.72	0.51	0.36	0.17	^R2.03	0.00	^R10.87	2.56
Aircraft departures (thousands)	1,777	2,561	3,160	2,820	3,115	3,601	3,581	3,220	3,515	1,394	707	^R672	611
Rates per 100 thousand aircraft departures
Fatalities^b	2.08	1.44	^R0.19	2.73	0.67	0.67	0.70	0.28	0.40	3.30	0.00	^R1.79	0.82
Seriously injured persons	0.79	^R0.55	0.35	1.10	0.22	0.06	^R0.17	^R0.53	0.06	0.07	0.28	^R0.30	1.15
Total accidents^c	2.14	0.70	^R0.47	0.82	0.74	0.44	0.28	0.37	0.31	1.15	1.13	^R1.93	1.96
Fatal^c	0.45	0.27	^R0.09	0.28	^R0.22	0.11	0.08	0.06	0.03	0.36	0.00	^R0.74	0.16
Flight hours (thousands)	1,176	1,737	2,342	2,292	2,335	2,638	2,784	2,628	2,757	983	354	^R343	374
Rates per 100 thousand flight hours
Fatalities	3.15	2.13	^R0.26	3.36	0.90	0.91	0.90	0.34	0.51	4.68	0.00	^R3.50	1.34
Seriously injured persons	1.19	^R0.81	0.47	1.35	0.30	0.08	^R0.22	^R0.65	0.07	0.10	^R0.56	^R0.58	1.87
Total accidents^c	3.23	1.04	0.64	1.00	^R0.99	0.61	0.36	0.46	0.40	1.63	2.26	^R3.79	3.21
Fatal^c	0.68	0.40	^R0.13	0.35	0.30	0.15	0.11	0.08	0.04	0.51	0.00	^R1.46	0.27

KEY: R = revised.

^a Air carriers operating under 14 CFR 135, scheduled service. Includes accidents involving all-cargo air carriers when those accidents occurred during scheduled 14 CFR 135 operations. Before Mar. 20, 1997, 14 CFR 135 applied to aircraft with 30 or fewer seats. Since Mar. 20, 1997, 14 CFR 135 includes only aircraft with fewer than 10 seats. This change makes it difficult to compare pre-1997 data with more recent years' data.

^b Data updated by rounding to two significant digits instead of one.

^c Rates are based on all accidents, including some that involve operators not reporting mileage or other traffic data to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

^d Total fatalities for 1991 do not include the 22 persons killed aboard an airliner when it and a commuter aircraft collided.

^e An attempted suicide case in 1992 is included in accidents but excluded in accident rates in this table.

NOTES: Miles, departures, and hours are compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration.

Rates are computed by dividing the number of fatalities, serious injuries, total accidents, and fatal accidents by the number of miles, departures, or flight hours. These figures are based on information provided by airlines to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information.

SOURCES:

Fatalities, accidents, aircraft-miles, aircraft departures, and flight hours:

1980: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1980, NTSB/ARC-83/01 (Washington, DC: January 1983), tables 26 and 40.

1985-2000: Ibid., Internet site www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Table 8.htm as of May 8, 2002.

Serious injuries:

1980-94: Ibid., Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

1995-2000: Ibid., Analysis and Data Division, personal communications, 1996; 1997; 1998; Mar. 28, 2000, and May 7, 2002.

Table 2-10: U.S. Commuter Air CarrieraSafety Data

Table 2-10: U.S. Commuter Air Carrier^aSafety Data