Emirates and Etihad among the world s top 10 safest airlines
ATP- Arab tourism portal- The Trigana Air crash in Indonesia earlier this month, which left 54 people dead, is the latest in a series of aviation tragedies across the world that have rocked the industry.
Earlier this year, an aircraft operated by Lufthansa’s German wings airline was allegedly crashed by the co-pilot in the French Alps killing all the 148 people on board.
According to the Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre, the number of deaths caused by airline accidents rose 400 per cent year-on-year in 2014 to reach almost 1000 fatalities.
However airlines in the United Arab Emirates, including Emirates and Etihad Airways, are among the safest carriers in the world, JACDEC’s latest ranking of the world’s safest airlines has found.
The centre ranks airlines annually on a safety index calculator that is based on eight components including annual revenue passengers kilometres, international safety benchmarks and the number of total losses and accident-free years.
While Dubai-based Emirates was ranked second on the list, Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways fell two spots to the 10th position this year.
The latter’s drop in ranking is likely due to repeat incidents of rejected take-offs and hydraulic failure.Overall, Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways topped the list with consistent accident-free revenue traffic, no deaths and zero hull loss events in the past 30 years.
