ONE ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 4

ONE ACCIDENT

AND MILLION MILES PLIGHT

The safety of air travel is emphasised in the Air Ministry's Report on the Progress of • Civil Aviation, says the'"Daily Mail.*-' ■ ' "The great increase in the safety of.air transport during recent years," says-the report, "is indicated by the ffl'pt. that during thp. period August, 1919, to December,. 1924, the approximate number of aircraft miles per accident resultiiig in death or injury to occupants was: .357,000, while the corresponding, figure for the period 19-25----1929 is 1,279,000." In the flve years; 1925-1929 the number killed was. 17 and the number injured 7. ,- The number killed on the British railways in the five years 1924-1928, during which 1,295,000,000 miles' were travelled, was 113, and tho number injured 2778. Seventeen accidents causing fatal or serious injuries occurred to British civil aircraft —including the machine*; of light aeroplane clubs and private machines—during 1929. -In tho year there were 6932 commercial flights, 29,312 passengers were carried, and 839.7't0ns of cargo ,nd 99.2 tous of mails were transported. The value of the goods carried by aircraft was £2,093,569, as a-gaiust £2,984,690 .in the previous year—^an increase of £8879.