The direction is toward fewer deaths by crash overseas.

The direction is toward fewer deaths by crash overseas, and more deaths by means of crash in the U.S. and its associated territories. This is the picture that come ups from a compilation of crashes through the whole extent of the past 30 years, and it reinforces the portrait provided from the RAND Corp. and other sources that the tendency in the U.S. is upward, not downward.

Complementary graphics are shown here. The top graph conceals the same period as the RAND contemplation 1968-1998, and also through May 1999 The lower graph focuses forward the last 10 years. It displays a sharper difference in the stretchs over the past decade.

Domestic and foreign accidents are defined strictly from location. The 1997 crash of a Korean Air Lines B747 at Guam, a U territory, is defined for intents here as a U.S. crash. forward the other hand, the 1995 crash at Cali, Colombia, of an American Airlines B757 is categorized as a non-U.S. crash.

The data here also include crashes involving aircraft that were not built in the West, similar as the 1998 crash forward takeoff at Quito, Ecuador, of a Cubana Tu-154M

It is important to note that the data here are not accident rates, yet deaths per accident. Larger airplanes, forward average, and higher average load factors, may contribute significantly to the upward sweep in the U.S.

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