European planes are the safest they’ve ever been - here’s why
Flying in Europe is at its safest level since records began, according to new research from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Findings in their 2023 annual safety report for global aviation show that, in Europe alone, the ‘all accident’ rate improved from 0.98 per million sectors in 2022 down to 0.48 accidents in 2023. That statistic is significantly better than the continent’s 5-year average of 0.77 accidents per million. Better still, Europe has had a fatality risk of zero since 2018. Interestingly, the largest proportion of recorded accidents were down to landing gear coll...