Of these, three mishaps (including the latest one), occurred in 2016 alone. The Boeing 777 flight crash-landed at Dubai air strip after its attempt to "go-around" went horribly wrong due to a sudden change in winds. A "go-around" means aborting a landing at the last minute to go up again and attempt a safe landing for the second time. On 19 March, a Flydubai Boeing 737-800 flight FZ-981 from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Russia's Rostov-on-Don with 55 passengers and seven crew members crashed on the destination site leaving no survivors. On 19 May, an Egypt Air flight MS804 with 66 people on board crashed into the Mediterranean.
Experts believe it's a wake-up call for the industry. "We believe this is a wake-up call for an industry which is dealing with pilot shortages, infrastructure gaps, Air Traffic Control congestion and several other factors such as revenue pressures and the rise of operating costs that is affecting the business year on year," said Mark D. Martin, founder and chief executive at Martin Consulting, pointing out that it is critical that the industry collectively looks into resolving the immediate challenges affecting safety. "Safety comes first, profits and sustainability clearly comes in the second place and we need to work on ensuring no bit of safety is compromised," he said.
Closer home, India's track record on aviation safety is no better. Though there have been no fatal accidents since May 2010, when a Boeing 737 of Air India Express crashed killing 158 passengers on board on landing in Mangalore, there have been several close shaves. The most recent one involved two IndiGo Airlines on 3 August. Some passengers suffered minor injuries as two IndiGo flights came close to each other near Guwahati and changed paths at the last minute to avoid a collision. IndiGo flight 6E-813 from Mumbai to Guwahati took a sharp dive after the pilots discovered that the aircraft was on the flight path of IndiGo flight 6E-136, approaching from the opposite direction.
India has often been pulled up by international agencies for failing to beef up its aviation safety infrastructure. After its 2006 and 2012 audits, the United Nation-aviation watchdog, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), had placed India on its list of the 13 worst-performing nations.
US regulator Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) followed ICAO's 2012 audit with its own and downgraded India, effectively barring new flights to the US by Indian airlines. The downgrade was lifted in 2015.
The civil aviation ministry, in a bid to professionalize air accident probes, is planning to create a pool of industry experts who will prepare investigation reports in case of aircraft accidents in the country, Mint reported in June 2016.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB)--which does the job--has been drawing officers from aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). In 2012, AAIB was formed as a result of prodding by ICAO and FAA to have an independent set-up to expedite aircraft investigations.
Yet, many investigation reports remain incomplete years after aircraft accidents. Pending reports include those on a Turkish Airlines Airbus A340 accident at Mumbai in September 2011, an Air India accident at Jaipur in December 2013, Jet Airways gear collapse at Khajuraho in 2015, a SpiceJet accident at Hubli in 2014 and IndiGo runway excursion at Bengaluru in 2013.
Source: McClatchy
so is the number of commercial flights/year. So unless you compare percentages you can't say for sure that we have a new problem.