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Aviation Safety Network Statistics, 1942-2019

Source: R/rd-asn_stats.R
asn_stats.Rd

These are yearly counts on air accidents and fatalities, including measures for corporate jet accidents and hijackings. The hijackings are of particular interest to me, at least from a historical terrorism perspective.

Usage

asn_stats

Format

A data frame with 78 observations on the following 7 variables.

year

numeric vector for the year

airacc

a numeric vector for the number of airliner accidents

airfatal

a numeric vector for the number of fatalities from airliner accidents

corpjetacc

a numeric vector for the number of corporate jet accidents

corpjetfatal

a numeric vector for the number of fatalities from corporate jet accidents

hijack

a numeric vector for the number of hijackings/skyjackings

hijackfatal

a numeric vector for the number of fatalities from hijackings/skyjackings

Source

Aviation Safety Network, a service provided by the Flight Safety Foundation.

Details

All fatality estimates exclude ground fatalities. All accidents are hull-loss accidents. The airliner figures are for those flights with at least 14 passengers. Check https://asn.flightsafety.org/statistics/period/stats.php?cat=H2 for more.