Improving the continent’s dismal aviation safety performance is getting some much-needed attention.
No matter howyou look at aviation safety data for Africa, the picture is not pretty. Last year the continent’s airlines had the world’s highest hull loss rate for Western-built jets at 9.94 per 1 million sectors and the highest total accident rate for all aircraft at 12.24 per 1 million sectors, according to IATA. These are 12 times and five times the world average respectively. The association also reported that African and Middle Eastern carriers accounted for just 8% of ...
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