More deaths in air traffic than last year

The number of deaths from plane crashes has risen dramatically this year.

He pointed out that the previous year in world aviation was an absolutely exceptional year with extremely low numbers of victims. The analysis of the Hamburg-based research agency for aviation magazine Aero International shows that the number of victims in 2018 is already above the 10-year average of 448 deaths, but still far below the 25-year average of 844 fatalities.