Number of Canadian Aircraft Involved in Accidents in 2003 Declines from Five-year Average
The number of Canadian airplanes involved in accidents was higher in 2003 than in 2002,
and the number of helicopters involved in accidents was lower.
—FSF EDITORIAL STAFF
T
he number of accidents in-volving Canadian-registered
airplanes in 2003 was higher
than the number for 2002, but was lower than the annual average for the period 1998–2002, based on preliminary figures released by the transportation Safety Board of Canada.1 Canadian-registered helicopters were involved in fewer accidents in 2003 than in either 2002 or in the annual average for the five-year period. Similar trends were seen in the numbers of Canadian aircraft involved in fatal accidents (table 1, page 27). The data include both commercial and private aviation and all categories of aircraft except ultralights.
Fifty-eight people were killed in accidents involving Canadian aircraft in 2003, com-pared with 50 in 2002 and an average of 65 per year in the 1998–2002 period. There were 44 serious injuries in 2003, compared with 42 in 2002 and an average of 44 per year in the 1998–2002 period.
non-Canadian-registered aircraft were involved in 29 accidents in Canada in 2003, an increase from 13 the previous year and from an average of 20 per year in the 1998–2002 period. eight fatalities were recorded in 2003 in Canadian accidents involving non-Canadian aircraft, more than the two in the previous year but fewer than the 1998–2002 annual average of 55. That five-year period included the fatal accident of Swissair Flight 111, in which the airplane struck the atlantic ocean near Peggy’s Cove, nova Scotia, on Sept. 2, 1998. [The airplane was destroyed and its 229 occupants were killed in the accident, in which flammable material propagated a fire that began above the cockpit ceiling and spread rapidly, degrading aircraft systems and leading to loss of control of the airplane.]
The 244 accidents involving Canadian airplanes in 2003 included seven airlin-ers, nine commuter aircraft, 35 air taxi (on-demand) aircraft and two corporate aircraft. (eighteen airplanes involved in commercial aerial work, three state air-planes and 170 “private/other” airplanes were also involved in accidents.) in the 26
fatal accidents to Canadian airplanes in
2003, there were no airliners, commuter
aircraft or corporate aircraft; five air taxi
aircraft were involved. (Four airplanes involved in commercial aerial work and 17 “private/other” airplanes were also involved in fatal accidents.)
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