, a Dutch consulting firm said.
Large commercial airplanes had 0.27 fatal accidents per million flights in 2020, To70 said, or one fatal crash every 3.7 million flights - up from 0.18 fatal accidents per million flights in 2019. More than half of all deaths in the To70 review were the 176 people killed in January 2020 when a Ukrainian plane was shot down in Iranian airspace. The second deadliest incident was the May crash of a Pakistan airliner, killing 98.
Over the last two decades, aviation deaths have been falling dramatically. As recently as 2005, there were 1,015 deaths aboard commercial passenger flights worldwide, the Aviation Safety Network said.
Very misleading, there were actually less crashes and less fatal crashes, the main one was actually shot down by a missile, if you remove that one it's 123 deaths, of which, 98 were from one other crash, it's the difference between a handful of fatal crashes worldwide.
Concerning that people would like the fact that more people died with less plane crashes.
Half of all the deaths were from one flight so it seems like a pointless statistical observation.
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