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Annual Safety Review 2014
Commercial Air Transport
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Fixed‑wing Aeroplanes
Scope
Commercial Air Transport (CAT) operations using fixed‑wing aeroplanes includes the carriage of passengers,
mail or cargo for remuneration. This chapter gives an aggregated view of all accident and serious incidents that
occurred in 2014 and involved fixed‑wing aircraft engaged in CAT operations with a maximum take‑off weight
above 5,700 kg that were operated by an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) holder approved in EASA MS. The over‑
view is complemented by the contextual data of the last 10 year period (2004-2013).
Despite the continuing low number of fatal accidents in CAT Fixed Wing (FW) in Member States, accidents of an
operational nature still occur. This serves as a reminder that there is still much to do in making European avia‑
tion transport an even safer mode of transport. In order to more efficiently achieve this outcome, the Agency is
currently reviewing its safety risk management process to ensure a systematic and structured assessment of the
most relevant safety issues and their subsequent remedial actions. The output of this assessment is the Safety
Risk Portfolio for CAT FW (SRP CAT FW) to be found later in this chapter.
The SRP CAT FW has been initiated around the analysis in the risk area of loss of control in flight, the highest area
of concern in this domain. However, the SRP CAT FW has also been extended to enable the holistic assessment of
the safety issues in other risk areas and this will be subject to further detailed analysis as the portfolio matures.