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Aviation

AR011 Aviation deaths and injuries

The bulk of critical and major aviation accidents involve small aeroplanes, helicopters, sport aircraft, hang gliders, parachutes, and agricultural aircraft.1

[1] Civil Aviation Authority, Aviation Safety Report, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018, p. 30. 

caa.govt.nz/assets/legacy/Safety_Reports/2018-1-aviation-update.pdf 

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AR012 Aviation fatal injuries

While subject to a good deal of fluctuation from year to year, aviation fatalities have been on a general downward trend for the last 2 decades.

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AR014 Aviation serious and minor injuries by aircraft type

Annually, half of reported serious and minor injuries come from 'private operations — sports aircraft’ accidents, which include aeroplanes, amateur built aeroplanes, amateur built gliders, amateur built helicopters, balloons, gliders, gyroplanes, helicopters, microlights Class 1 and  Class 2, and power gliders).

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AR015 Aviation fatal accidents

Fatal aviation accidents remain relatively rare events.

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AR016 Aviation accidents resulting in death or injury

While the number of aviation accidents resulting in death or injury has fluctuated somewhat from year to year, they have remained relatively rare events.

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AR018 Aviation-related occurrences

Most incidents in recent times have been largely of a minor nature — including unauthorised people going through unattended security checkpoints, minor incidents on board aircraft and passenger luggage breaches.

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AR019 Social cost of aviation accidents (NZD$ million)

Social cost is a way of measuring safety performance by accounting for the number and severity of casualties, and aircraft damage.

The values used to estimate cost to the nation of fatal, serious and minor injuries are obtained from our annual report, ‘Social Cost of Road Crashes and Injuries’. We have directed our agencies to use social cost to permit comparisons between transport modes.

The current average social cost per fatality is NZD$4.37 million as of June 2018. Estimates of the values of aircraft destroyed or written off are made by the Civil Aviation Authority on the basis of market prices in a number of developed aviation nations.

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