Flying is becoming increasingly secure: the number of accidents drops drastically!

In 2022, 334 people died worldwide when there were accidents in civil air traffic. This balance sheet comes from the Federal Association of German Air Traffic Management (BDL) and includes passengers, crew members and seven people on the ground. It is noteworthy that the number of fatalities in 2023 fell to only 80, which is the second lowest number since 1970.

The statistics show that the number of victims increased according to a low value in 2017, but decreases in the long term. Flying has developed significantly more safely since the 1970s; In 2022, security was around 53 times higher than during this time. Accidents with aircraft flow into the data recorded that have a capacity of at least 14 seats. Accidents of smaller machines and military aircraft are not taken into account in these statistics.

The most serious accidents in recent years

In Germany, there were no accidents with aircraft of this size in the period recorded. The most difficult misfortune of 2022 occurred on December 29, 2024, when a Boeing 737-800 of the Jeju Air crashed in South Korea and died in 179 of the 181 inmates. Two crew members survived the misfortune; The investigation into the cause is still in progress. In 2023 the most difficult incident was the crash of an ATR72 in Nepal, where 72 people died.

The forecasts of the UN Air Travel Organization Icao show that almost 4.7 billion passengers were promoted worldwide in 2022. This corresponds to more than ten times the average number of passengers from the 1970s when around 440 million passengers flew annually. In the 1970s, more than 2,000 people died in plane plumbers in individual years.

Additional information on the number of fatalities in aircraft dumplings worldwide until 2023 were published by IATA and are accessible via Statista. This article, published on February 28, 2024, deals with the last access to the data on January 6, 2025.