2014 a year of extremes in air safety

By Julie Power
Updated August 6 2014 - 10:08am, first published August 2 2014 - 6:18pm
A year of extremes: Three times as many passengers have died in commercial flights this year than last year. Photo: Supplied
A year of extremes: Three times as many passengers have died in commercial flights this year than last year. Photo: Supplied

More than three times as many air passengers have died in commercial jet crashes this year than in 2013. But despite the three fatal crashes in July alone, the number of disasters is still below the average, says an independent air safety monitoring company.