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The number of people killed in plane crashes jumped in 2018 compared with the previous year, with more than 500 deaths recorded, new figures show.

Wreckage is recovered from Lion Air Flight 610, which crashed into the sea off Indonesia in October.

Nonetheless, 2018 was still one of the safest years for commercial aviation on record, according to reports from Dutch aviation consultancy To70 and the Netherlands-based Aviation Safety Network (ASN).

The ASN recorded a total of 15 fatal airliner accidents in 2018, leading to 556 deaths, compared with 10 accidents and 44 lives lost in 2017, the safest year in aviation history.

Of those accidents, 12 involved passenger flights and three were cargo flights, the ASN report said. Three of the 15 planes were operated by airlines on the European Union “blacklist,” it said.

Despite the jump in the number of deaths last year, ASN Chief Executive Harro Ranter said the level of aviation safety had increased significantly overall.

“If the accident rate had remained the same as 10 years ago, there would have been 39 fatal accidents last year,” he said. The rate of the year 2000 would have seen 64 fatal accidents. “This shows the enormous progress in terms of safety in the past two decades,” Ranter added.

The figures for 2018 represent a rate of one fatal accident for every 3 million flights, said To70.

The consultancy highlighted the Lion Air crash off Indonesia in October — in which 189 people lost their lives — as the deadliest single incident for the year. The

Article source: https://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/world-news/215321/plane-crash-deaths-rise-in-2018-but-accidents-are-still-rare.html

It’s a lofty New Year’s goal, one that would make a London museum a first in Canada.

London’s Jet Aircraft Museum is trying to raise $60,000 to get a vintage jet — the same model the Snowbirds fly — that’s grounded in eastern Ontario up in the air once again.

The non-profit wants to get the CT-114 Tutor jet to its London airport location, where it would begin fully restoring the decades-old piece of Canadiana to flying condition.

There are shells of the Canadian-made jets in other museums, but none that non-military personnel can take for a spin.

“The only aircraft like that that are flying now are with the Canadian military’s Snowbirds,” said Scott Ellinor, president of the Jet Aircraft Museum. “It’s an incredibly rare aircraft to get a hold of. . . I’m sure it will be on a lot of people’s bucket lists to go flying in a Tutor jet.”

The volunteer-run museum has set up an online crowdfunding campaign to raise the $60,000. The money would cover the purchase of the Canadian-built plane, the cost of shipping it from Campbellford, northwest of Belleville, and to help pay for a new engine, Ellinor said.

Already, the museum’s flight maintenance engineer has inspected the plane and determined that, with a lot of work, it can be restored to flight-ready status.

“It will have to be totally rewired, we’ll have to have some parts made. It will be a couple of years before it’s restored to flying condition,” Ellinor said.

Once enough money is raised, a London

Article source: https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/london-museum-raising-funds-to-get-grounded-snowbirds-jet-flying

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