11/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - JACDEC says number of air deaths is increasing. The number of victims of air accidents rose in 2010 compared with the two previous years, according to a report by the JACDEC (Jet Airliner Crash data Evaluation Centre) published in Aero International magazine and quoted by Polish news agency PAP. In 2010, 829 people were killed in 49 civil aviation accidents across the world. In 2009, 766 people died and 598 the year before that. The current situation is out of all comparison, however, with the last two decades of the 20th century, when the average number of deaths was some 1,400 annually. 1985 and 1996 saw the greatest number of deaths, with a Japan Air Lines plane crashing into Mount Otsutaka, and a collision between a Kazakh and a Saudi Arabian plane respectively. (A.By./transl.rt)