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Safety Regulations runway during landing or takeoff. It is the has been working on a comprehensive
Flight safety remains the most important most common type of aviation accident, strategy this year in close consultation
consideration in commercial aviation and accounting for approximately 22 % of all with airlines, regulators, manufacturers,
as per the International Air Transport aviation accidents in the five year period and training, the industry body says.
Association (IATA), out of 38 million flights from 2014 to 2014. Survivability in the case 2014 saw five accidents attributed to
in 2014, there were 12 fatal accidents, of a runway excursions are high though, CFIT and according to IATA, “Most CFIT
with only three involving jet aircraft. totalling for less than seven % of fatalities accidents happen in the approach and
The global jet accident rate stands at in that same period. As per the IATA landing phase and are associated with
one major accident for every 4.4 million annual review 2015, “LOC-I accidents are imprecise approaches,” adding that in the
flights. According to the International rare but almost always catastrophic. Fully past five years, “48 % of CFIT accidents
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the 97% of LOC-I in the past five years involved involved faulty approaches.” This has been
three high-fatality accident categories fatalities to passengers and crew.” In the attributed to lack of approach procedures
are: Runway Incursions and Excursions, period from 2010 to 2014, LOC-I accidents such as instrument landing systems (ILS)
Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) and resulted in 1,242 of the 2,541 fatalities or performance-based navigation (PBN).
Loss of Control Inflight, or LOC-I. This is but made up only nine % of all accidents.
as per analysis of safety data shared by The CFIT fatality rate has been reduced by
industry operators over many years. A almost 85 % and there has been a 50 %
strong focus on training and adherence decrease in the number of LOC-I accidents,
to procedures and regulations as seen in the same period. The International
runway-related fatalities drastically Air Transport Association (IATA) placed
reduced to just one in 2014, compared a significant focus on reducing LOC-I
to 179 in 2010. Runway excursion is the and runway excursion accidents in This image, created by
term used to describe an accident or 2014, coming up with enhanced training Rockwell Collins’ new EP-8100,
demonstrates the high level of
incident, where an aircraft departs a materials. In an effort to reduce CFIT, it realism the system is bringing to
simulation and training
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