According to IATA's (International air transport association) director general Giovanni Bisignani, 2006 was the safest year for civil aviation. At a press conference in Morocco at Royal Air Morocco's headquarters, he underlined that "sixty years ago, we transported 9 million passengers and we recorded 800 deaths each year. We had the same number of deaths in 2006 yet we transported 2.2 billion travellers ". There has also been a reduction of 50% in the rate of accidents in 2006 compared to 1996 (21 accidents in 2006). According to him, the "rate of loss of planes per million flights" was reduced to 0.65 from 1.32 in 1996". The objective is to bring the rate down to 0.49 by the end of 2008."
Now the important task will be to improve energy efficiency and reduce gas emmissions or discover new energy sources that are less polluting and which produce less CO2... not an easy task, I would say.
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