EASA Boss Warns Against Complacency After Fatality-Free 2013
Safety record for aircraft registered in European states continues to improve.

Despite the fact that there were no fatal accidents last year involving commercial air transport fixed-wing aircraft flown by operators based in the member states of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the authority’s executive director, Patrick Ky, has warned against complacency. “We should never overlook that maintaining safety requires vigilance as one single accident can stop or even reverse this positive trend,” he said in the foreword to the recently published 2013 EASA Annual Safety Report