Jet disasters claim the highest number of lives since 2002
The number of people killed in passenger airline crashes in the first six months of 2009 was the highest January-June total since 2002, new figures show. Two recent Airbus crashes, including the mid-Atlantic Air France disaster, swelled the 2009 half-year fatality figure to 499, Flight International magazine said. This compared with 175 deaths in the first six months of 2008 and was well above the half-yearly average of 344 for this decade. The years 2001-10 could now become the first decade since World War II when global airline accident rates did not show an improvement compared with the previous decade, said Flight International's operations and safety editor David Learmount.
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