Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC) is a company that provides commercial aviation safety analysis. The company promotes the ‘JACDEC Safety Index’, a rating system developed from the company's proprietar
database
The JACDEC Centre also monitors current safety occurrences and provides updates on airline safety issues on several

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. The ratings take into account the number and fatality rate of the

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es (destroyed

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) they have suffered in the past 30 years, more recent safety data, and number of flights flown without incident. These results, however, do not take into account the cause of the hull losses or whether the airline is at fault.

JACDEC Airline Safety Ranking

Since 2002, JACDEC has published an annual ranking of the "Safest 60 Airlines". The index rating, JACDEC distinguishes whether an event is a total loss or a serious incident: Both will be recorded in the JACDEC Database, but in the final weighting, a total loss counts considerably more. The term "total loss" means that any repair costs of accident damage exceed the residual value of the aircraft or the aircraft was destroyed. JACDEC includes only flights where paying passengers were on board. Therefore, all

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, or

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flights– are disregarded.JACDEC considers the operational environment as one important factor for an airline's safety performance. The results of this investigation are published and can be viewed by everyone.

Controversies

JACDEC's methodology has been criticized within the airline evaluation industry as unreliable and not transparent. The inaccuracy of the company's indexing has been debated after a list was issued for the German Newspaper

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's website after the crash of

Air France Flight 447 Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France. On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and mi ...

, displaying the safety index of the world's 60 biggest airlines. The list included

Turkish Airlines Turkish Airlines (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Türk Hava Yolları''), or legally Türk Hava Yolları Anonim Ortaklığı, is the flag carrier of Turkey. , it operates scheduled services to 352 destinations (including cargo) in Europe, Asia, Oce ...

as the list's 60th, and least safe, airline. The starting year for the list was precisely chosen as 1973, some 36 years back.

Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (TK981/THY981) was a scheduled flight from Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport to London Heathrow Airport, with an intermediate stop at Orly Airport in Paris. On 3 March 1974, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating the fl ...

crashed in 1974 at a time when most of the airlines that were listed did not even exist, such as

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which was founded in 1999, and other regional companies with less flight frequency. JACDEC's 2013 report was heavily criticized by

Air India Air India is the flag carrier of India with its main hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, and secondary hubs at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, alo ...

, after it was named as the 3rd least safest airline. The report stated that for the 30 year period, Air India had 3 hull losses, while the airline reported that it had only one fatal crash and hull loss of

Air India Flight 182 Air India Flight 182 was a passenger flight operating on the Montréal–Mirabel International Airport, Montreal–Heathrow Airport, London–Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi–Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumb ...

in that timeframe that resulted in 329 fatalities, which was caused by an act of terrorism and not a safety factor.

References

External links

JACDEC
- current ''JACDEC Safety Indices'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacdec Aviation statistics Aviation safety organizations