Airline Safety 1985-2014
by Soukhna Wade The aviation industry is the business sector dedicated to manufacturing and operating all types of aircraft. Air traffic controllers, when they are awake, are concerned with aviation safety. This page is to evaluate airline safety using the data for 56 airlines that were in the global top 100 as of December 2012 and which have operated continuously since Jan. 1, 1985. Airlines are sorted based on the rate of fatalities. The data is located under Airline Safety , GitHub. China Airlines has a higher fatality number. It had 535 fatalities between 1985-1999 and 225 fatalities between 2000-2014. Although China Airlines ' number of fatalities is not very consistent from 1985 to 2014, it has the highest number of fatalities than any other Airline on the list. Airlines' fatality number can be explained by many factors such as weather, technical problems, security issues, lack of training. For instance, China Airlines was also criticized for insufficient ...