§ Mr. MacleanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will publish a table showing the airlines operating out of and having scheduled flights to the UK and the number of crashes of planes of each airline broken down in terms of(a) crashes per one million passengers carried, (b) crashes per 10,000 take offs and landings and (c) crashes per one million miles travelled, occurring in the last year. [107530]
§ Mr. MullinAs aircraft accidents are very rare events, statistics in this format serve no useful purpose and are not used by either the Department or the Civil Aviation Authority. For UK registered aircraft, the CAA use an accident rate per million hours flown averaged over three years as a performance indicator. These figures are published in the CAA's annual report. In addition, the CAA has carried out a review of fatal accidents by world regions. The results of this review were published in CAP 681 "Global Fatal Accident Review 1980–96". Copies of both documents are already in the Library.