Annual Safety review 2009 easa.europa.eu
Total number of accidents and fatal accidents for EASA MS operators – commercial air transports Your safety is our mission. Period Number of accidents Fatal accidents Fatalities on board Ground fatalities 1998 – 2007 (average) 26 4 93 1 2008 (total) 31 1 154 0 2009 (total) 17 1 228 0 Period Number of accidents Fatal accidents Fatalities on board Ground fatalities 1998 – 2007 (average) 8 3 11 0 2008 (total) 10 2 4 0 2009 (total) 5 2 18 0 Fatal accidents in commercial air transport – EASA MS and third country operated aeroplanes 40 60 20 60 57 48 43 60 56 38 51 51 37 80 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Fatal accidents EASA MS operators Fatal accidents third country operators Third country operators 3-year average EASA MS operators 3-year average 7 11 5 3 2 5 5 3 1 1 Fatal accidents in commercial air transport – EASA MS and third country operated helicopters 10 15 5 7 11 8 16 16 11 15 14 17 9 20 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Fatal accidents EASA MS operators Fatal accidents third country operators Third country operators 3-year average EASA MS operators 3-year average 2 4 4 2 2 5 1 2 2 Overview and key facts 2009 Aeroplanes Helicopters Distribution by type of General Aviation Unknown 7 % Business 14 % Flight Training/ Instructional fighting 16 % Other 31 % Pleasure 32 % Distribution by type of Aerial Work Aerial Work 5 % Unknown 5 % Parachute drop 10 % Agricultural 15 % Other 15 % Fire fighting 50 % Fatal accidents – aeroplanes over 2 250 kg – EASA MS registered Accidents, Fatal accidents and related fatalities – Aircraft with a mass below 2 250 kg, by year and aircraft category, EASA MS Your safety is our mission. Note: Numbers for period 2006 – 2009 are average of three years. Data as reported to EASA. Aircraft category Period Number of accidents Fatal accidents Fatalities on board Ground fatalities Balloon 2006 – 2008 23 0 0 0 2009 20 0 0 0 Aeroplane 2006 – 2008 536 63 118 1 2009 528 62 118 2 Glider 2006 – 2008 186 18 19 0 2009 213 20 25 0 Gyroplane 2006 – 2008 10 3 3 0 2009 12 1 2 0 Helicopter 2006 – 2008 79 8 18 1 2009 95 15 28 2 Microlight 2006 – 2008 211 33 48 0 2009 225 45 60 0 Other 2006 – 2008 64 9 11 1 2009 67 12 12 0 Motorgliders 2006 – 2008 51 10 15 0 2009 74 8 8 0 (Average) 2006 – 2008 1,160 145 234 3 (Total) 2009 1,234 163 253 4 Increase (%) 6.3 % 12.4 % 8.3 % 20.0 % Annual Safety review 2009 easa.europa.eu European Aviation Safety Agency Safety Analysis and Research Department Ottoplatz 1 D-50679 Cologne Tel. +49 (221) 89 99 00 00 Fax +49 (221) 89 99 09 99 E-mail: asr@easa.europa.eu Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. 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Table of Contents Executive Summary | 7 1.0 Introduction | 9 1.1 Background . . . . . . . 9 1.2 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3 Content of the report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.0 Historical development of aviation safety |11 3.0 Commercial air transport |15 3.1 Aeroplanes . . . . . . . 15 3.1.1 Fatal accident rates . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.1.2 Fatal accidents per type of operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.1.3 Accident categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.2 Helicopters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.2.1 Fatal accidents . . . . . . 20 3.2.2 Fatal accidents per type of operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.2.3 Accident categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4.0 General aviation and aerial work |25 4.1 Accident categories – General Aviation (aeroplanes) . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2 Accident categories – Aerial Work (aeroplanes) . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.3 Business aviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.0 Light aircraft, aircraft below 2 250 kg MTOM |31 5.1 Fatal accidents . . . . . . . . . 33 5.2 Accident categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 6.0 The European central repository |37 6.1 The ECR at a glance . . . . . . . . . 38 6.2 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . 41 7.0 Agency’s safety actions |43 7.1 Approvals and Standardisation . . . . . . . . . 43 7.2 Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 7.3 Rulemaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 7.4 The European Strategic Safety Initiative (ESSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 7.5 European Commercial Aviation Safety Team (ECAST) . . . . . . . . . . 48 7.6 European Helicopter Safety Team (EHEST) . . . . . . . . 49 7.7 European General Aviation Safety Team (EGAST) . . . . . . . 50 Appendix 1: General remarks on data collection and quality . . . . . . . 51 Appendix 2: Definitions and acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Appendix 3: List of figures and tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Appendix 4: Listing of fatal accidents (2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Disclaimer . . . . . . . 60 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 6 Your safety is our mission. 7 The safety record showed also that the number of fatal accidents in commercial air transport dropped to 1 in 2009 and is one of the lowest in the decade. In 2009, only 2.6 percent of all fatal accidents in commercial air transport worldwide occurred with aeroplanes operated by a company from a Member State of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA MS). The fatal accident rate of scheduled passenger operations is significantly lower in Europe than in the rest of the world. The number of fatal accidents in helicopter commercial air transport operations in Europe was two, the same as in 2008, and equal to the ten year average of two. The number of fatal accidents for general aviation and aerial work operations with aeroplanes and helicopters remained relatively stable. ‘Loss of control in-flight’ (LOC-I) is the most frequent accident category for this type of operations. Technical issues appear to play a much smaller role. For the fourth time, the Agency collected accident data for light aircraft (Maximum certificated Take-Off Mass (MTOM) below 2 250 kg) from EASA MS. Overall, the number of accidents in 2009 was 1,234 in this category of aircraft was above the 2006 (1,121) and 2007 (1,157) figures. The data received were not complete. Several States did not report. The Agency continues to cooperate with EASA MS to further improve harmonisation of data collection and to facilitate data sharing. This is the first year that the Annual Safety Review provides information regarding the European Central Repository for occurrences (ECR). The number of reports and States reporting is encouraging. Challenges remain to the quality and accessibility of the data. The Annual Safety Re view also offers an overview of aviation safety measures taken in the different EASA Directorates. The Certification Directorate is responsible for the initial and continuing airworthiness of aeronautical products, parts and appliances. The Rulemaking Directorate is drafting new or amendments to existing regulations to ensure high common aviation safety standards in Europe. In the Standardisation Directorate compliance with these rules is monitored. In 2009 the European Strategic Safety Initiative continued its activities and progress. The European Commercial Aviation Safety Team published best practice material on Safety Management Systems (SMS). The European Helicopter Safety Team published in April 2009 a preliminary analysis report of 2000 – 2005 European accidents. The European General Aviation Safety Team (EGAST) published safety promotion material on Loss of Control and Collision Avoidance. Executive Summary Aviation Safety in Europe in the year 2009 was marked by an accident of an Airbus 330 over the Atlantic which involved 228 fatalities. This accident involved the largest number of fatalities in the year worldwide. Another important accident for Europe was that of a Super Puma during a helicopter offshore operation involving 16 fatalities. 8 Your safety is our mission. 9 1.1 Background Air transport is one of the safest forms of travel. It is essential to improve that level of safety for the benefit of the European citizens. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is the centrepiece of the European Union’s strategy for aviation safety. The Agency develops common safety and environmental rules at European level. Also, it monitors the implementation of standards through inspections in the Member States and provides the necessary technical expertise, training and research. The Agency works hand in hand with the national authorities which continue to carry out many operational tasks, such as certification of individual aircraft or pilot licensing. This document is published by EASA to inform the public of the general safety level in the field of civil aviation. The Agency provides this review on an annual basis as required by Article 15(4) of Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008. Analysis of information received from oversight and enforcement activities may be published separately. 1.2 Scope This Annual Safety Re view presents statistics on European and worldwide civil aviation safety. The statistics are grouped according to type of operation, for instance commercial air transport, and aircraft category, such as aeroplanes, helicopters and gliders. The Agency had access to accident and statistical information collected by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). States are required, according to ICAO Annex 13 ‘Aircraft accident and incident investigation’, to report to ICAO information on accidents and serious incidents to aircraft with a maximum certificated take-off mass (MTOM) over 2 250 kg. Therefore, most statistics in this review concern aircraft above this mass. In addition to the ICAO data, a request was made to the EASA Member States (EASA MS) to obtain light aircraft accident data for the years 2006 – 2009. Furthermore, data on the operation of aircraft for commercial air transport was obtained from both ICAO and the NLR Air Transport Safety Institute (The Netherlands). The Annual Safety Re view (ASR) is based on the data that were available to the Agency on 23 March 2010. Any changes after that date are not included. Note: Much of the information is based on initial data. That data is updated as results of investigations become available. As investigations may take several years, data from previous years may need to be modified. This leads to differences between data reported in this ASR when compared to that of previous years. In this review the terms ‘Europe’ and ‘EASA Member States’ are considered as the 27 EU Member States plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The region is assigned based on the State of the Operator of the accident aircraft for commercial air transport operations. For all other operations, the region is assigned based on the State of Registry. Within the statistics, special attention is given to fatal accidents. In general these accidents are internationally well documented. Figures including non-fatal accident numbers are also presented.
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