ICAO Safety Report 2017 Edition
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SAFETY Safety Report 2017 Edition Foreword A Coordinated, Risk-based Approach to Improving Global Aviation Safety The air transport industry plays a major role in global Improving the safety of the global air transport system is economic activity and development. One of the key elements ICAO’s guiding and most fundamental strategic objective. to maintaining the vitality of civil aviation is to ensure safe, The Organization works constantly to address and enhance secure, efficient and environmentally sustainable operations global aviation safety through coordinated activities and at the global, regional and national levels. targets outlined in its Global Aviation Safety Plan (GASP), available from the ICAO web site (www.icao.int). A specialized agency of the United Nations, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was created in 1944 to The GASP initiatives are monitored by ICAO’s appraisal promote the safe and orderly development of international of global and regional aviation safety metrics on the basis civil aviation throughout the world. of established risk management principles — a core component of contemporary State Safety Programmes ICAO promulgates Standards and Recommended Practices (SSP) and Safety Management Systems (SMS). In all of (SARPs) to facilitate harmonised regulations in aviation its coordinated safety activities, ICAO strives to achieve safety, security, efficiency and environmental protection on a balance between assessed risk and the requirements of a global basis. ICAO is the primary forum for co-operation practical, achievable and effective risk mitigation strategies. in all fields of civil aviation among its 191 Member States. This report provides updates on safety indicators, including accidents that occurred in 2016, and related risk factors. Results of analysis from the 2012–2016 reports are used as benchmarks for comparison, although it must be noted that numbers presented in this report may not exactly match those of the earlier reports due to the data having been updated in the intervening period. ICAO Safety Report 2017 Edition 2 © 2017, International Civil Aviation Organization Published in Montréal, Canada International Civil Aviation Organization 999 Boulevard Robert-Bourassa Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3C 5H7 www.icao.int Disclaimer This report makes use of information, including air transport and safety related data and statistics, which is furnished to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) by third parties. All third party content was obtained from sources believed to be reliable and was accurately reproduced in the report at the time of printing. However, ICAO specifically does not make any warranties or representations as to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of such information and accepts no liability or responsibility arising from reliance upon or use of the same. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect individual or collective opinions or official positions of ICAO Member States. Note: The ICAO RASG regions are used in the report and are listed in Appendix 2. This document focuses primarily on scheduled commercial flights. The scheduled commercial flights data was based on the Official Airline Guide (OAG) combined with internal ICAO preliminary estimates. ICAO Safety Report 2017 Edition 3 Contents Contents Foreward .................................................................. 2 Appendix 1 ............................................................ 18 Contents .................................................................. 4 Analysis of Accidents – Scheduled Commercial Air Transport ..................................... 18 Executive Summary ................................................. 5 High-Risk Accident Occurrence Categories ............. 18 Aviation Safety Implementation Assistance Partnership (ASIAP) ................................................. 7 Accidents by RASG Region .................................. 20 Safety Oversight and USOAP CMA Status ............ 10 Accident Trends .................................................. 21 Safety Recommendations Addressed to ICAO ...... 12 Appendix 2 ............................................................ 22 Accident Statistics ................................................. 13 Regional Aviation Safety Group (RASG) Regions ...... 22 Regional Accident Statistics .................................. 14 RASG-AFI .......................................................... 22 GSIE Harmonized Accident Rate ........................... 15 RASG-APAC ....................................................... 23 Harmonized Analysis of Accidents ................... 15 RASG-EUR ........................................................ 23 Definitions and Methods ................................ 16 RASG-MID ......................................................... 23 Accidents by Category ................................... 16 RASG-PA ........................................................... 23 Accidents by Region of Occurrence ................. 17 Appendix 3 ............................................................ 24 Future Development ...................................... 17 GSIE Harmonized Accident Categories ................... 24 Appendix 4 ............................................................ 25 List of Scheduled Commercial Accidents in 2016 .... 25 Risk Categories ................................................... 25 ICAO Safety Report 2017 Edition 4 Executive Summary Executive Summary Accident statistics for the last five years show a decrease in At the 39th Session of the ICAO Assembly in October 2016 both the number of accidents as well as the accident rate. the ICAO Council adopted a number of resolutions related In 2016 the downward trend in the number of accidents to acts of unlawful interference, including: continued with 75 accidents reported by States representing a 18 per cent decrease from 2015. Over the same period • Urging States to support the Convention on there was in increase in scheduled commercial departures the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to which result in a global accident rate of 2.1 accidents per International Civil Aviation (Beijing Convention million departures, down by 25 per cent from the 2015 rate of 2010) and the Protocol Supplementary to of 2.8 accidents per million departures. the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (Beijing Protocol of 2010.) Commercial air transport accidents in 2016 resulted in 182 fatalities, which is a return to a similar level as 2013 • Promulgating ICAO policies related to the when there were 173 fatalities. The two intervening years safeguarding of international civil aviation had seen a spike in fatalities due to a number of acts of against acts of unlawful interference. unlawful interference that resulted in a large number of casualties. Chart 1: Accident Records: 2012–2016 Scheduled Commercial Flights 911 750 500 474 386 250 173 182 98 97 90 92 75 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Number of fatalities Number of accidents ICAO Safety Report 2017 Edition 5 Executive Summary ICAO is committed to improving aviation safety and The reduction in the accident rate from 2.8 to 2.1 accidents enabling seamless cooperation and communication among per million departures represents the lowest rate ever. It is stakeholders. ICAO continues to collaborate with established noteworthy that the Africa-Indian Ocean (RASG-AFI) region regional bodies/organizations, such as Regional Aviation did not have any safety-related fatal accidents in 2016; Safety Groups (RASGs) and Regional Safety Oversight the second year without a fatal accident for this region. Organizations (RSOOs), and to promote and develop the The sole fatality in AFI was a suicide bomber whose laptop capacity building and implementation support necessary bomb blew a hole in the fuselage of his aircraft, sucking the to address emerging safety issues. bomber out of the aircraft. Two others aboard the aircraft were injured. ICAO is working in partnership with the international aviation community to achieve future safety improvements, with an emphasis on improving safety performance. This report provides a summary of key indicators with reference to the 2012–2016 period. ICAO Safety Report 2017 Edition 6 ASIAP Aviation Safety Implementation Assistance Partnership (ASIAP) Technical assistance is a major component of ICAO’s As part of this effort ICAO established the Aviation Safety “No Country Left Behind” (NCLB) initiative which focuses Implementation Assistance Partnership (ASIAP) during on assisting all States on priority basis to provide support the Second High-level Safety Conference in 2015, as the for implementation of ICAO SARPs under all ICAO strategic platform for ICAO and its safety partners to coordinate objectives. Building partnerships and pooling resources efforts for the provision of assistance to States. Its members among States, international organizations, development include Canada, China, France, Japan, Malaysia, Republic institutions and industry is essential for collaboration of Korea, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom, United on and contribution to technical assistance for effective States, Airports Council International (ACI), African Civil implementation of SARPs and policies by States with Aviation Commission (AFCAC), Airbus, Boeing, the Civil Air sustainable results. Navigation Services Organization (CANSO), the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the International Air Transport Association