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 Theme: Safety

Aviation safety involves two concepts: internal safety (the risk of experiencing an accident as a passenger on an airplane) and third party safety. The latter involves the risk of experiencing an accident on the ground as a result of an air crash, for instance when an aircraft overruns the landing runway and hits a car on a highway passing by the airport, or when an aircraft crashes in a residential area.  
 
Aviation’s internal safety levels are exceptionally high. Less than 1000 people worldwide are killed each year as a result of an airplane accident. In comparison, the number of fatalities by road traffic accidents in the EU alone is approximately 38,000 each year.

Due to high internal safety levels, third party safety is not an issue. The risk can never be zero, but the impact is limited to less than 4 third party fatalities per year (long term average) in the Western World. Increasing internal safety is the only effective way to sustain this low number or even improve on it.
   

Next to aviation safety, security is also an important issue in the aviation industry. Although security is not primarily concerned with air safety, it can in fact influence safety. In the worst case, security measures can impair air safety.


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