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Old 29th Nov 2002, 07:58
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Note that the data quoted by the Sun comes from 1979 to 1983, so it is very much out of date.

But also note that the Sun's data refers just to FATAL accidents.

The INJURY data (e.g getting hurt but not dying) that I cited from the Canadian Government Occupational Health and Safety statistics indicates that on-board workers suffer a much higher injury rate than the average worker.

So the injury data does confirm that air crew do work in a dangerous environment.

The interesting question though is who is actually getting injured while in the air? Are the pilots and the flight attendants getting injured at the same rate because of crashes, turbulence etc?

Or is it predominantly the flight attendants who suffer most of the injuries?

The Canadian data shows an injury rate of around 17.5 injuries per 100 on-board airline workers per year. By comparison, the average Canadian worker injury rate is 6.4 injuries per 100 workers per year.
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