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Interestingly even though there have been a significant decrease in the number of flights and passengers flying, the number of absolute fatalities was higher in
by chrononaut 6y ago
Interestingly even though there have been a significant decrease in the number of flights and passengers flying, the number of absolute fatalities was higher in 2020 than 2019: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55515525 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55515525
- woutr_be 6y ago2020 did have fewer accidents than 2019 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft#2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...), with a major accident early January. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines_Flight_752 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines... And most accidents happened before June, which was still relatively early on in the pandemic.
- scoopertrooper 6y ago2020 was so wild I forgot Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner.
- Recursing 6y agoAs the article says, 176 out of the 299 fatalities in 2020 were due to the "shooting down of a Ukraine International Airlines flight by Iranian armed forces last January". So that's the only reason