(registration RA-89098) taken off a runway after a crash landing at the Sheremetyevo International Airport the airliner left Sheremetyevo for Murmansk on May 5 at around 6pm Moscow time, returned and made an emergency landing at around 6.40pm due to a fire aboard the crash landing and the fire resulted in multiple casualties. MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA MAY 6, 2019: An Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ100) passenger aircraft. The crash was apparently caused by wing icing, but a final report has still not been completed. Iran's Aseman Airlines was told by Iranian officials to ground its ATR aircraft. This follows a February 2018 ATR crash in Iran’s mountains that killed 66 people. A similar error several weeks earlier had resulted in a narrow escape, but the problem was reportedly never reported to the Iranian Aviation Organization. The pilots apparently confused the runway of one airport with that of another, realized their error and failed in an effort to pull up. In January 2019, an aging Iranian Boeing 707, crashed, killing 15. Unfortunately, lack of transparency and international cooperation does not help improve aviation safety. The crisis has led to the demotion and eventual firing of Boeing CEO Muilenburg, questions about how much “ broad oversight of its own work” the FAA allowed Boeing, lawsuits from the families of victims as well as airlines, pilots and potentially flight attendants, and a stock decline, among other issues.Īviation Safety Network's CEO Harro Ranter stated that “2020 should be a decisive year on how the international aviation industry will handle aircraft design, flight crew procedures and certification in the wake of the 4th longest airliner grounding.”īut while the 737 MAX crashes and Boeing’s response to it were clearly the major aviation safety story of 2019, it was not the only one. The 737 MAX investigations and questions around a return to service date are enormous and multi-faceted.

Over 400 737 MAX aircraft have been parked since March, 2019 when the FAA issued an order grounding them (among the last world regulatory bodies to do so.) Even if Boeing’s fixes to the MAX are approved by the FAA and other world aviation bodies soon, American Airlines has the 737 MAX off its flight schedule until April 7, Southwest until April13. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP 29 crash of another Boeing 737 Max plane, operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air, stoking concern that a feature meant to make the upgraded Max safer than earlier planes has actually made it harder to fly. Sunday’s loss of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737, in which 157 people died, bore similarities to the Oct. International Airport in Cenkareng, Indonesia, on Tuesday, March 15, 2019. 737 Max 8 aircraft sits on the tarmac at terminal 1 of Soekarno-Hatta. In October 2018, a Boeing 737 Max operated by Lion Air crashed, killing all 189 people on board.įive months later an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed, killing 157, after which the entire 737 Max fleet was grounded.A grounded Lion Air Boeing Co. It also did not cover accidents involving military flights, training flights, private flights, cargo planes, and helicopters.Īir passenger safety was under intense scrutiny in 2019 after two crashes in close succession of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The study did not include small commuter planes, and some smaller turboprop aircraft. The types of planes covered by the research are the aircraft used by the vast majority of air passengers around the world. The study includes passengers, air crew, and anyone killed on the ground in a plane accident. There were no fatal passenger jet crashes that year, and only two fatal accidents involving regional turboprops that resulted in 13 deaths. The global aviation industry’s safest year on record was 2017.

In 2018, 160 incidents were recorded, including 13 fatal accidents, accounting for some 534 deaths.

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