JACDEC

JACDEC stands for the Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre. The German authors Jan-Arwed Richter and Christian Wolf provide under that term social research as a service, detailed informations about an airline are with costs. [ [http://www.jacdec.de/media/ASC/jacdec_airline_safety_check.htm jacdec.de - Order page] ] . The JACDEC Safety Index was developed from their collected data. The "Centre" also monitors current events and provides updates on airline safety issues.

JACDEC Safety Index

The JACDEC Safety Index is a probabilistic measurement of past airline safety. It counts the fatalities per Revenue Passenger Terameter Performed. Its unit is 1/Tm.

Example

If an airline has an "JACDEC Safety Index" of 0.5, then a person has to fly 2 Terameter on average to get killed due to being an aircraft passenger. (Note that 1 Terameter is about 25000 round-trips around the world. If one round-trip by aircraft needs two days, a person needs to fly continuously for about 274 years with an airline with an "JACDEC Safety Index" of 0.5 in order to get killed due to being an aircraft passenger. Thus, with such an airline, it is more likely to die due to other causes of death than flight accidents.)

* For example, British Airways has a safety index of 0,03, so dying due to one of its flights crashing is very unlikely.

References

External links

* [http://www.jacdec.de JACDEC] - current "JACDEC Safety Indices"