In a year in which the number of airline passengers flown fell by two-thirds, aviation tragedies still claimed more lives than in 2019.nnAccording to analysis by the aviation consultancy To70, there were 39 accidents involving passenger aircraft in 2020. Five were fatal, costing a total of 299 lives.
The Independent: Air safety in 2020 – fewer flights but more deaths in accidents than 2019
A woman uses a smartphone as she walks past an arrivals board displaying the Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 from Tehran marked as cancelled at the Boryspil airport outside Kyiv on Jan. 8, 2020. - All passengers and crew on board the Ukrainian Boeing 737 plane that crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran on Jan. 8, 2020 were killed, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
