Despite several high-profile accidents and sharp rise in air crash deaths, 2018 was one of the safest years ever for commercial aviation, figures show.
The 2018 airliner accident statistics that the Aviation Safety Network released Wednesday show taht a total of 556 people were killed in 15 fatal airliner accidents last year.
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