Russia’s Aeroflot Airlines has been named the deadliest airline by the Aircraft Crashes Record Office, a Swiss-based website that records plane accident and fatality statistics.
Aeroflot had the highest death total per operator of all commercial airlines, with a total of 8,231 fatalities. Air France ranked second with 1,783 passenger deaths in its history.
Air France’s safety record has been heavily scrutinized due to several incidents, including last June’s flight 447 from Rio to Paris which broke apart and crashed into the Atlantic. All 288 people on board were killed. While the cause of the crash is still unknown, investigators have found that cockpit flight computers were receiving incorrect airspeed readings. Air France has since replaced speed probes on other jets.
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