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Passenger Safety
The number of fatalities and the number of passengers transported by airlines worldwide are shown in Figure 3
below. The overall decreasing trend in the number of fatalities between 2005 and 2013 has been reversed in
2014. Accident records show that the number of fatalities per year is variable and is highly dependent on a small
number of catastrophic accidents, which individually result in hundreds of fatalities. In 2013, there were no in‑
dividual fatal accidents with more than 50 fatalities, while there have been three in 2014, each resulting in over
100 fatalities.
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Figure 3:
Worldwide fatalities involving passenger and cargo operations compared
with the number of passengers transported, maximum take‑off mass above 5,700 kg
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Billions of Passengers Transported
Number of Fatalities
Year
Fatalities
Passengers Transported