{"id":517720,"date":"2023-01-15T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=517720"},"modified":"2023-01-25T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:14:27","slug":"passenger-aviation-worldwide-has-become-extraordinarily-safe-but-nepal-is-the-tragic-outlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/passenger-aviation-worldwide-has-become-extraordinarily-safe-but-nepal-is-the-tragic-outlier","title":{"rendered":"Passenger aviation worldwide has become extraordinarily safe, but Nepal is the tragic outlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everywhere in the world, passenger aviation has become extraordinarily safe. In 2022, the total aviation death toll of 174 corresponded to the average number of fatalities on the roads in an hour and a quarter worldwide. Two weeks ago, Adrian Young of the Dutch air safety consultancy To70 reported: &#8220; The fatal accident rate is better than average over the last 10 years .&#8221; But there is one country where plane crashes remain tragically frequent: Nepal . On the Yeti Airlines website , flight YT691 on Sunday morning from Kathmandu to Pokhara is listed normally as &#8220;departed&#8221;. In reality, dozens of passengers are dead after the plane crashed on approach to Pokhara international airport. The cause is not yet known. But with the latest incident , this time involving an ATR 72 aircraft, the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal has now suffered 13 tragedies in as many years. The current sequence began in August 2010, when 14 people lost their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everywhere in the world, passenger aviation has become extraordinarily safe. In 2022, the total aviation death toll of 174 corresponded to the average number of fatalities on the roads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}