Direct News Source IATA announced the publication of the 2020 Safety Report and released data for the 2020 safety performance of the commercial airline industry. The total number of accidents decreased from 52 in 2019 to 38 in 2020. The total number of fatal accidents decreased from 8 in 2019 to 5 in 2020. The all-accident rate was 1.71 accidents per million flights. This is higher than the 5-year (2016-2020) average rate which is 1.38 accidents per million flights. IATA member airlines’ accident rate was 0.83 per million flights, which was an improvement over the 5-year average rate of 0.96. Total flight operations reduced 53% to 22 million in 2020. Fatality risk remained unchanged compared to the five-year average at 0.13.