Dutch aviation consulting firm To70 said: The number of deaths from large commercial aircraft crashes in 2020 rose globally to 299, despite a dramatic drop in flights. Due to the spread of COVID-19
To70 said that in 2020 a large passenger flight had 40 accidents, five of which were the first, which resulted in 299 deaths, while in 2019 there were 86 and eight commercial aircraft crashes. Fatal accidents involving 257 deaths
More than half of all the crash deaths were caused by a Ukrainian plane shot down in Iranian airspace in January. The number two fatal crashes were a Pakistani passenger plane crash in May. In 2019, in which 98 people died.
Large commercial planes have 0.27 fatal accidents per million flights in 2020, or one crash for every 3.7 million flights, up from 0.18 per million flights in 2019.
The various airlines The number of flights has been greatly reduced in 2020 due to the effects of COVID-19. Worldwide, Flightradar24 reported that global commercial flights dropped 42 percent to 24.4 million by 2020.
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