Details are just emerging of an Aseman Airlines ATR 72 having crashed in Iran, killing all 66 people on board. The plane crashed in southern Isfahan, into the Zagros mountains near the city of Semirom. The plane had the registration EP-ATX, and was conducting a routine flight from Tehran to Yasuj, which covers a distance…
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Sad indeed.
However, I was wondering: this doesn't "count" in terms of (un)safest years in aviation, right? See for example https://onemileatatime.com/2017-was-the-safest-year-on-record-for-commercial-aviation/
@AJO: it always depends on the definition. For last years "zero crashes" number they only counted commercial flights (ruling out the B744 in Kyrgyzstan) and jets (ruling out two crashes of small turboprops). With that definition, this crash wouldn't count, but since we already had a commercial jet crash this year, there is no need to use that definition again to boast about safety this year.
@Lucky: minor detail, but the correct reg is EP-ATS, they changed it after initially reporting EP-ATX (see avherald).
These ATR's seem to have more incidents than other types of plane.
Is that why Airbub gives them a low profile?
@Tom I know that 2 transasia airways crashes were caused by pilot error. I think over 80% of their pilots failed the test. in one of the crashes, the pilot accidentally turned off the good engine instead of the bad one
It remains to be seen if this was pilot error, but airlines typically use their junior pilots and least experienced pilots on these short-hop routes, which are typically flown by ATRs.
ATR crashes in Taiwan (2) and Laos...all pilot error ( albeit in difficult flying conditions).
So as soon 2017, one of the safest years on record for aviation, ended, suddenly everything goes crazy?