Despite 20 fatal crashes, 280 deaths still 2019 safest years for commercial flights

Despite 20 fatal crashes, 280 deaths but still 2019 was one of the safest years in civil aviation history. Data available with the Aviation Safety Network, an independent organisation that records and maintains data on air accidents the world over, show that 2019 was the third safest year (between 1946 and 2019) in terms of number of deaths caused by air accidents in seventy-four long years.