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Report: Fewer Airline Accidents in 2015


FILE - In this photo made available on Nov. 2, 2015, and provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, Egyptian Military on cars approach a plane's tail at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt.
FILE - In this photo made available on Nov. 2, 2015, and provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, Egyptian Military on cars approach a plane's tail at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt.

The number of airline accidents declined in 2015 with no deaths from jet aircraft reported, according to a report by the International Air Transport Association.

The report says that in 2015 there were four fatal accidents, all of which involved turboprop aircraft, that resulted in the deaths of 136 people. This compares with an annual average of 17 fatal accidents, involving all aircraft types, and 504 fatalities in the five-year period of 2010 - 2014.

Their were a total of 68 accidents, fatal and non fatal, in 2015 down from 77 in 2014.

"In terms of the number of fatal accidents, it was an extraordinarily safe year," said IATA Director General Tony Tyler.

The 2015 accident statistics do not include two major airline disasters that were caused intentionally.

The deliberate crash of Germanwings 9525 by its pilot and the suspected terrorist attack on Metrojet 9268 resulted in the deaths of 374 passengers and crew.

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