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Who Is Hot And Who Is Not
May 9,
2008: One way to determine which nations
have more effective armed forces is to look at civilian activities that are
commonplace, and involve the same mix of technology, leadership and skill that
make for battlefield success. How about commercial aviation accident
rates? Last year, worldwide, .75 airliners were lost per million flights. In
other words, there was a crash every 1.33 million flights. But that varied
greatly around the world. In North America, the rate was .09 (one crash per
11.1 million flights). The worst area was Africa, where there were 4.09 crashes
per million flights. In South America, it was 1.61 per million. In Europe, it
was .29 per million. Russia, and the former states of the Soviet Union, had a
very good year, with no crashes. Normally, though Russia falls somewhere
between Latin America and Europe. Asia
has a loss rate of 2.76, which was a bit worse than usual because of a number
of crashes in Indonesia.
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