According to the annual safety report released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) it is still six times less safe to fly in Africa than the rest of the world. Africa had the worst record at 4.09 hull-losses per million flights. IATA describes a hull loss as an accident in which the aircraft was destroyed or substantially damaged beyond repair. The number of global fatalities declined 19% from 855 to 692, even as passenger numbers increased by 6% to over 2.2 billion passengers in 2007. There were 100 accidents in 2007 compared with 77 accidents in 2006.

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