New Delhi
The incident of crash of passenger plane of South Korea and Azerbaijan had shocked the country. Plane accidents have been happening all over the world, sometimes due to bird collision, sometimes technical fault or bad weather.
According to the report of Aviation Safety, an organization that monitors plane accidents, in 2023, there were 109 plane accidents across the world, in which 120 people died. According to this, an average of 9 plane accidents occurred every month in which 10 people died. According to Aviation Safety, last year the maximum number of 34 plane accidents took place in America.
According to data from Aviation Safety, an organization that monitors plane accidents, 813 planes have crashed worldwide between 2017 and 2023. 1,473 passengers have died in 813 incidents of plane crashes. Most plane accidents occur during landing. In these seven years, there have been 261 accidents during landing. After that, 212 accidents have occurred during flight itself. During this period, 14 accidents have occurred in India.
According to aviation safety, most aircraft accidents occur during take-off and then during landing. Last year, there were 109 such accidents, out of which 37 occurred during takeoff and 30 during landing. Despite hundreds of plane accidents occurring across the world every year, air travel is considered to be the safest.
If we look at the statistics, there have been an average of 200 plane accidents every year in the last 7 years. And in just one year, more than hundreds of people have lost their lives. But despite this, flight travel is considered the safest.
Still, air travel is considered the safest!
Professor Anthony Brickhouse of Florida’s Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University told CNN that air travel is the safest means of transportation. He said, flying at an altitude of 38 thousand feet is safer than driving on the ground.
According to the report of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), in 2023, more than 3.7 crore planes took flight across the world. Despite this, people lost their lives in only a few accidents. Last year, a plane crashed in Nepal, in which 72 people were killed. Let us tell you that IATA releases a report on flight safety every year.
The IATA report claimed that every 12.6 lakh aircraft take off, one accident occurs. IATA claims that when a person travels by plane every day for 1,03,239 years, there will come a day when he will have to face a fatal accident.
A few years ago, Professor Arnold Barnett of Massachusetts Institute of Technology also did a report on flight safety, in which it was claimed that if 1.34 crore passengers traveled by air between 2018 and 2022, then only 1 of them would die. There is danger.
When did the world’s first plane accident happen?
If we look at the history of air traffic, on June 15, 1785, the accident of the Rosiere air balloon near Vimarex, France proved to be fatal for the first time. Jean François Pilatre de Rozier, the inventor of the Rozier air balloon, was killed in this accident. Whereas the first accident of a powered aircraft occurred on 17 September 1908 when a Model-A aircraft crashed in Virginia, America. In this, the co-inventor and pilot of this aircraft were injured while the co-passenger died.
