Future Tense

According to the annual report just released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 2023 goes down as one of the safest years in commercial aviation history. Not a single fatal accident was recorded involving a commercial jet. Not one.

Combining jet and turboprop operations, IATA says there were 37 million commercial flights last year. Among those, the only deadly crash was that of an ATR turboprop in Nepal last January. If I’m counting right, this puts last year as the second-safest on record, bested only by 2017.

This is astonishing, and despite all the (extremely deserved) heat Boeing has been getting in recent years, we should really keep our fears around flying in check.

And maybe we should consider how we could see the benefits of public accountability and amazing training applied in other domains.