The fatality rate on passenger jet aircraft worldwide jumped in 2018 after airlines recorded zero accident deaths on passenger jets in the prior year, according to a Dutch consulting firm and an aviation safety group. To70 estimated that the fatal accident rate for large commercial passenger flights at 0.36 per million flights, or one fatal accident for every three million flights. (Toby Melville/Reuters)Over the last two decades, aviation deaths around the world have been falling. As recently as 2005, there were 1,015 deaths aboard commercial passenger flights worldwide, the Aviation Safety Network said. The shadow of a passenger jet approaching Los Angeles International airport (LAX) is cast on the nearby Interstate highway in 2018.

Source: CBC News January 02, 2019 02:03 UTC