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AVIATION ACCIDENT STATISTICS

Table 5. Accidents, Fatalities, and Rates, 1988 through 2007,
for U.S. Air Carriers Operating Under 14 CFR 121, Scheduled and Nonscheduled Service (Airlines)
	Accidents		Fatalities					Accidents per 100,000 Flight Hours		Accidents per 1,000,000 Miles Flown		Accidents per 100,000 Departures
Year	All	Fatal	Total	Aboard	Flight Hours	Miles Flown	Departures	All	Fatal	All	Fatal	All	Fatal
1988*	30	3	285	274	11,140,548	4,503,426,000	7,716,061	0.260	0.018	0.0064	0.0004	0.376	0.026
1989	28	11	278	276	11,274,543	4,605,083,000	7,645,494	0.248	0.098	0.0061	0.0024	0.366	0.144
1990	24	6	39	12	12,150,116	4,947,832,000	8,092,306	0.198	0.049	0.0049	0.0012	0.297	0.074
1991	26	4	62	49	11,780,610	4,824,824,000	7,814,875	0.221	0.034	0.0054	0.0008	0.333	0.051
1992	18	4	33	31	12,359,715	5,039,435,000	7,880,707	0.146	0.032	0.0036	0.0008	0.228	0.051
1993	23	1	1	0	12,706,206	5,249,469,000	8,073,173	0.181	0.008	0.0044	0.0002	0.285	0.012
1994*	23	4	239	237	13,124,315	5,478,118,000	8,238,306	0.168	0.030	0.0040	0.0007	0.267	0.049
1995	36	3	168	162	13,505,257	5,654,069,000	8,457,465	0.267	0.022	0.0064	0.0005	0.426	0.035
1996	37	5	380	350	13,746,112	5,873,108,000	8,228,810	0.269	0.036	0.0063	0.0009	0.450	0.061
1997	49	4	8	6	15,838,109	6,696,638,000	10,318,383	0.309	0.025	0.0073	0.0006	0.475	0.039
1998	50	1	1	0	16,816,555	6,736,543,000	10,979,762	0.297	0.006	0.0074	0.0001	0.455	0.009
1999	51	2	12	11	17,555,208	7,101,314,000	11,308,762	0.291	0.011	0.0072	0.0003	0.451	0.018
2000	56	3	92	92	18,299,257	7,524,027,000	11,468,229	0.306	0.016	0.0074	0.0004	0.488	0.026
2001*	46	6	531	525	17,814,191	7,294,191,000	10,954,832	0.236	0.011	0.0058	0.0003	0.383	0.018
2002	41	0	0	0	17,290,198	7,192,501,000	10,508,473	0.237	-	0.0057	-	0.390	-
2003	54	2	22	21	17,467,700	7,280,383,000	10,433,164	0.309	0.011	0.0074	0.0003	0.518	0.019
2004	30	2	14	14	18,882,503	7,930,159,000	11,023,128	0.159	0.011	0.0038	0.0003	0.272	0.018
2005	40	3	22	20	19,390,029	8,165,643,000	11,130,407	0.206	0.015	0.0049	0.0004	0.359	0.027
2006	33	2	50	49	19,263,209	8,139,357,000	10,820,915	0.171	0.010	0.0041	0.0002	0.305	0.018
2007	26	1	1	1	19,305,000	8,140,000,000	10,900,000	0.135	0.005	0.0032	0.0001	0.239	0.009

Notes

2007 data are preliminary.
Flight hours, miles, and departures are compiled by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Since March 20, 1997, aircraft with 10 or more seats used in scheduled passenger service have been operated under 14 CFR 121.
Years followed by the symbol * are those in which an illegal act was responsible for an occurrence in this category. These acts, such as suicide, sabotage and terrorism are included in the totals for accidents and fatalities but are excluded for the purpose of accident rate computation. Table 12 contains a list of illegal act occurrences involving US air carriers for the period covered by this table. Other than the persons aboard aircraft who were killed, fatalities resulting from the September 11, 2001 terrorist act are excluded from this table.

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