Ten fatalities in 9 weeks?
In the latest Flight Safety Australia digest (Issue 129, Autumn 2020) on page 56 it lists the Australian accidents and incidents between 6 October and 16 December 2019.
A quick glance shows that there were 10 fatalities in the 9 weeks. This seems a staggering amount.
At that rate, with 15 times the traffic, the USA would have had 150 fatalities whereas the opposite page shows a total of 23 over 11 weeks (i.e. the equivalent of 18 fatalities over 9 weeks).
In the last 9 weeks appears there have been another 11 fatalities in Australia.
What’s going on?
If the rate of 10 fatalities in 9 weeks remains the same for a 12 month period, the total number of fatalities would be 58. It is absolutely staggering.