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AI third least safe, finds 30-year study

- HT Correspond­ent letters@hindustant­imes.com NEW DELHI:

Air India is far from being the Maharaja of the skies. The national carrier has been rated as the world’s third least safe airline after China Airlines and Brazilian carrier TAM Airlines, according to a report from a website that monitors plane crashes around the world.

India’s national carrier is ranked 58th among 60 listed airlines by Hamburg- based Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC), Indo-Asian News Service reported.

Finnair, the report said, is now the world’s safest airline, followed by Air New Zealand, Cathay Pacific and Emirates, according to JACDEC Safety Ranking, 2012.

None of the top nine ranked airlines had lost an aircraft or had a fatality during the 30-year period. The centre calculates its annual rankings based on aircraft loss accidents and serious incidents in 30 years. The resulting index relates that informa- tion to the revenue per passenger kilometer earned by the airline during this time period.

There were 496 fatalities on commercial passenger flights last year, two fewer than in 2011. The most significan­t involved a Dana Air flight which crashed in Nigeria, killing 169 people, and a Bhoja Air flight which crashed in Pakistan, killing 127.

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