EASA Annual Safety Review - General Aviation

Welcome to the 2023 Annual Safety Review (ASR), which looks at the safety performance of the European aviation system in 2022. This article provides the basic information for GA Aeroplanes. For Balloons and Sailplanes you can check out the dedicated pages on this community site for these domains. 

You can check out the full ASR on the EASA website here. 

Introduction

This, and other analyses carried out by EASA in collaboration with the National Aviation Authorities (NAAs) and industry is used to support the decision making that is reflected in the European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS). Therefore, where risks are identified, further analysis is performed and when needed, mitigation actions are included in the EPAS. This is a continual workstream as part of the European Safety Risk Management Process.

The report provides an analysis of accidents, serious incidents and other occurrences, using ICAO Annex 13 definitions. The source is EASA’s occurrence database complemented by the European Central Repository (ECR), which contains the reports collected under Regulation (EU) 376/2014.  The ASR also provides information on the level of occurrence reporting in Europe and also on EASA’s standardisation activities.

The key GA information from the ASR

Further reading and analysis on GA Aeroplanes:

• Chapter 1 – Safety Overview: Global safety picture.
• Chapter 2 – Analysis of non-commercial aeroplanes with occurrence class (accidents/ incidents), fatalities and injuries, occurrence categories, flight phase and operation type.
• Appendix 1 – Full list of fatal accidents.
• Appendix 2 – Advanced statistics: Non-commercial ops with non-complex aeroplanes (Section 4).