報告顯示 年爲民用航空史上最安全的一年

2017 was the safest year in history for commercial airlines, according to industry research.

根據行業研究顯示，2017年是商業航空歷史上最安全的一年。

There were no passenger jets crashes anywhere in the world, separate reports by Dutch consultancy To70 and The Aviation Safety Network found.

荷蘭諮詢公司To70和航空安全網的兩份報告顯示，2017年世界各地沒有發生重大客機墜毀事故。

But To70 warned that despite high safety levels on passenger planes, the "extraordinarily" low accident rate must be seen as "good fortune".

但To70警告稱，儘管客機的安全水平提高，但必須把“極其”低的事故率看作是“運氣好”。

A report by the Airline Safety Network said there were a total of ten fatal accidents, resulting in 79 deaths last year. That compared with 16 accidents and 303 lives lost in 2016.

航空安全網的一則報告指出，去年共發生了十起致命事故，造成79人死亡。相比之下，2016年發生了16起事故，303人喪生。

The organisation based its figures on incidents involving civil aircraft certified to carry at least 14 people.

該組織得到的數據是基於那些涉及民用飛機的事故，這些民用飛機證實至少可以搭載14人。

The most serious accident of 2017 came in January when a Turkish cargo plane crashed into a village in Kyrgyzstan killing all four crew and 35 people on the ground.

2017年最嚴重的事故發生於1月份，一架土耳其貨機墜毀在吉爾吉斯斯坦的一個村莊，造成四名機組人員和35名乘客當場死亡。

Neither report counted military or helicopter accidents, meaning the year's worst air disaster, the crash of a Burmese Y-8 military transporter plane, which crashed in June killing all 122 people on board did not appear in the statistics.

這兩份報告均未把軍事或直升機事故計算在內，這意味着今年最嚴重的空難數據沒有統計在內。6月，一架緬甸Y-8軍用運輸機墜毀，機上122人全部遇難。

"Since 1997 the average number of airliner accidents has shown a steady and persistent decline, for a great deal thanks to the continuing safety-driven efforts by international aviation organisations such as ICAO, IATA, Flight Safety Foundation and the aviation industry," ASN president Harro Ranter said.

航空安全網總裁哈羅·蘭特表示：“自1997年以來，飛機事故平均發生的數量持續穩步下降，這在很大程度上都要歸功於國際民航組織、國際航空運輸協會、飛行安全基金會和航空業等國際航空組織持續加強航空安全所做的努力。”