The number of accidental airline plane crashes dropped to a historic low in 2015, which meant that for the second year in a row, the number of people intentionally killed in airline planes exceeded the number of people killed in plane accidents.
There were eight accidental airline plane crashes last year, the fewest since 1946, according to FlightGlobal, an aviation data company. A total of 161 passengers and crew lost their lives in those accidents, bringing the global fatal accident rate for all types of planes in 2015 to just 1 per 5 million flights, a new low.
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Source: Time
