Flight Safety-2013

[slowjet]

I started the thread with broad interest & a comment on the R&N site which gives a run down of what seemed to be one prang after another. No, I don't use Pprune to guage flight safety but it does give a broad overview. With less than a week to run to the close of 2013, we can add Nigel re-arranging his right-wing and pretty well demolishing an airside building. And, a freighter goes down in Russia. I didn't ask if 2013 was the worst for air safety but was it "amongst" the worst ? Thanks for the professional replies & links. Interesting.