ICAO releases Safety Report, air accidents rose 12pc globally

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Safety Report 2020 provides initiatives to improve aviation safety and updates on some safety performance indicators, including accidents that occurred in 2019, and related risk factors.

According to the details, ICAO underlined the aviation accidents in its safety audit report which rose 16 per cent in the year 2019 as compared to the previous year’s report. The aviation watchdog said in its safety report that the rate of accidents rose to 2.9 per million flights taking off globally in the year 2019, which is 12 per cent more than what was in 2019: 2.6 per million accidents.

The number of worldwide accidents and fatal accidents on scheduled commercial flights during the 2015–2019 period are shown in the chart below:

Between the years 2015 to 2019, the trend of the annual number of accidents has increased. The lowest count recorded was 75 accidents in 2016 and the highest was 114 in 2019. However, the number of fatal accidents per year significantly decreased from 11 in 2018 to 6 in 2019.

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Chart below shows the number of fatalities associated with the above-mentioned fatal accidents decreased more than half from 514 in 2018 to 239 in 2019.

Pakistan also made it to the list of countries achieving the aviation safety targets with marking 75 per cent score in compliance to safety measures according to the 2020 ICAO report. According to the safety audit, Pakistan is among the 46 other countries to have scored 75 per cent of above in safety compliance as per international standards.

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It is pertinent to mention here that ICAO expressed satisfaction over the steps taken by Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for improving their licensing process.

The ICAO’s satisfactory remarks came after a report presented by the CAA regarding the reforms and progress on the Significant Safety Concerns (SSCs) of the international aviation institution. The CAA’s steps for reforming personal licencing grabbed an 83 per cent rating out of the highest 97.4 per cent from ICAO.

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