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> To wit, according to the annual report just released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 2023 goes down as one of the safest years in commercial aviation history. Not a single fatal accident was recorded involving a commercial jet. Not one.

> Combining jet and turboprop operations, IATA says there were 37 million commercial flights last year. Among those, the only deadly crash was that of an ATR turboprop in Nepal last January.

Someone both died and didn't die?

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> Not a single fatal accident was recorded involving a commercial jet. Not one.

> the only deadly crash was that of an ATR turboprop

Turboprops are not jets.

the incident in Nepal was also determined to be due to intentional pilot malice. not to say the systems couldn't have been in place to prevent it.

I’m not sure that’s correct, at least if you mean the determination that the official accident investigation reached [0]. Pilot error and insufficient training on the new approach (being flown for the first time into the new airport), but I don’t see anything in the report that suggested they maliciously wanted to die and kill their passengers. That seems like a pretty big accusation to bring to bear.

Although if I remember correctly, didn’t the pilot become a pilot herself after she lost her husband, a pilot, in a crash 10 years prior?

(Edit: it was 16 years rather than 10 [1]. I’d forgotten how tragic the whole situation was, and how sympathetic everybody involved.)

[0] [PDF] https://www.tourism.gov.np/files/1/9N-ANC%20FINAL%20Report.p...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64299882

Turboprop is different from jet

Nepal can also be a different world for aviation to boot. They have some gnarly airports there.

Also not the best safety record and practices. They are on the EU blacklist.

Ah, I missed that the line that mentions the report wasn't talking about the report as a whole. Sounded like the second line was getting its information from somewhere other than that report.

I assume that an "ATR turboprop" does not count as a commercial jet.

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