2014 will remain a black year for the airline industry. The series began on March 8 with the disappearance of MH370 flight Malaysia Airlines. Party of Kuala Lumpur, Beijing leadership, with 239 people on board the aircraft had issued its last signal above the Indian Ocean, seven hours after takeoff. Despite colossal research, the most important and most expensive in history, the aircraft remains found at this day.
Extremely rare, Malaysia Airlines will be mourning a second time on July 17, when another of its Boeing is shot down by a missile over Eastern Ukraine. 298 people, the majority of Dutch people, perished in the crash. The next day, the European authorities forbid overflights of the region.
A few days later, on 23 July, it is a ATR -72 TranAsia Airways which crashed during a second landing attempt on an island of Taiwan. The flight was delayed because of a typhoon. The propeller plane crashed in a residential area near the airport. Of the 58 passengers, ten survived the accident.
The next day, in Mali that crashed for reasons still unknown, the 5017 flight of Air Algeria. The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, operated by Swiftair company, fell half an hour after takeoff from Ouagadougou. Bad weather conditions are advanced to explain this crash that made no survivor.
In 2014, aircraft accidents have killed more people than the annual average of the past five years. However, security continues to grow: the tests before the entry into service of new aircraft are very demanding and automatic navigation systems are becoming more sophisticated. Each accident is used to improve aviation safety. The tragedy of the Rio-Paris in 2009 has led Air France to extend from 30 to 90 days the transmission time tags black boxes. Moreover, its aircraft transmit their positions every ten minutes,
or even every minute, in the case of path deviation. Measures that are not yet mandatory.
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