JACDEC

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Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre
TypeСommercial company
IndustryAviation safety analysis

Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre(JACDEC) is a company that provides commercial aviation safety analysis. [1]

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The company promotes the ‘JACDEC Safety Index’, a rating system developed from the company's proprietary database. The JACDEC Centre also monitors current safety occurrences and provides updates on airline safety issues on several social networks.

The ratings take into account the number and fatality rate of the hull losses (destroyed aircraft) they have suffered in the past 30 years, more recent safety data, and number of flights flown without incident. These results do not take into account the cause of the hull losses or whether the airline is at fault, so they are not a perfect measure of how safely an airline operates. [2]

JACDEC Airline Safety Ranking

Since 2002, JACDEC has published an annual ranking of the "Safest 60 Airlines". The index rating, JACDEC distinguishes whether an event is a total loss or a serious incident: Both will be recorded in the JACDEC Database, but in the final weighting, a total loss counts considerably more. The term "total loss" means that any repair costs of accident damage exceed the residual value of the aircraft or the aircraft was destroyed. JACDEC includes only flights where paying passengers were on board. Therefore, all freightferry, training, or maintenance flights– are disregarded.[ citation needed ]JACDEC considers the operational environment as one important factor for an airline's safety performance. The results of this investigation are published and can be viewed by everyone.

Safest Airlines 2018 (Based on 2017 values) [3]
RankAirlineCountryIndex
1 Emirates Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 93.61
2 Norwegian Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 93.26
3 Virgin Atlantic Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 92.87
4 KLM Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 92.77
5 EasyJet Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 92.75
6 Finnair Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 92.67
7 Etihad Airways Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 92.56
8 Spirit Airlines Flag of the United States.svg  United States of America 92.18
9 Jetstar Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 92.12
10 Air Arabia Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 92.09
Least Safe Airlines 2018 (Based on 2017 values)[ citation needed ]
RankAirlineCountryIndex
1 Blue Wing Airlines Flag of Suriname.svg  Suriname XX.XX
2 Iraqi Airways Flag of Iraq.svg  Iraq XX.XX
3 Iran Aseman Airlines Flag of Iran.svg  Iran XX.XX
4 Med-View Airline Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria XX.XX
5 Mustique Airways Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines XX.XX

Controversies

JACDEC's methodology has been criticized within the airline evaluation industry as unreliable and not transparent. [4]

The inaccuracy of the company's indexing has been debated after a list was issued for the German Newspaper Bild's website after the crash of Air France Flight 447, displaying the safety index of the world's 60 biggest airlines. [5] The list which was possibly wrongly computed unfairly included Turkish Airlines as the list's 60th, and least safe airline, which is indeed a Star Alliance member. The starting year for the list was precisely chosen as 1973, some 36 years back. Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in 1974 at a time when most of the airlines that were listed did not even exist, such as JetBlue Airways which was founded in 1999, and other regional companies with less flight frequency.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "JACDEC – Your Center for Aviation Safety Information" . Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  2. Davies, Alex (January 23, 2013). "The World's 10 Most Dangerous Airlines". Yahoo Finance. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  3. "JACDEC AIRLINE SAFETY RANKING 2018". JACDEC. Archived from the original on 2018-04-19. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  4. Lee, Danny (22 January 2018). "Cathay Pacific falls 11 places in safety rankings, hits out at 'unreliable' evaluator". South China Morning Post.
  5. http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2009/06/04/flugzeug-absturz/so-sicher-sind-die-60-groessten-fluggesellschaften.html List of 60 biggest airlines on Bild Website in German