2014 good year for aviation security. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents around 240 airlines and accounts for 84% of global air transport considers that the 2014 global jet accident rate was the lowest rate in history with 12 fatal accidents involving all aircraft types and 641 fatalities. IATA explains that the shooting down of MH 17 in Ukraine, however, is not included as an accident. The association said that the 2014 global jet accident rate (measured in hull losses per 1 million flights) was 0.23 and the lowest rate in history, the equivalent of one accident for every 4.4 million flights. This was an improvement over 2013 when the global hull loss rate stood at 0.41 (an average of one accident every 2.4 million flights) and also an improvement over the five-year rate (2009-2013) of 0.58 hull loss accidents per million flights jet. IATA regretted the 12 fatal accidents involving all aircraft types in 2014 with 641 fatalities, compared with an average of 19 fatal accidents and 517 fatalities per year in the five-year period. IATA also provided the following statistics for 2014: 1) More than 3.3 billion people flew safely on 38.0 million flights (30.6 million by jet, 7.4 million by turboprop); 2) 73 accidents (all aircraft types), down from 81 in 2013 and the five-year average of 86 per year; 3) 12 fatal accidents (all aircraft types) versus 16 in 2013 and the five-year average of 19. Some 16% of all accidents were fatal, below the five-year average of 22%; 4) 7 hull loss accidents involving jets compared to 12 in 2013 and the five-year average of 16; 4) 641 fatalities compared to 210 fatalities in 2013 and the five-year average of 517. (Isabelle Lamberty)