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Airlines from several countries are deemed so unsafe they’re banned from operating in European airspace.
Last week 72 people are believed to have died when a Yeti Airlines plane crashed in Nepal, the country’s worst air disaster in three decades.
Officials said 53 of the passengers were Nepalese, along with five Indians, four Russians, two Koreans and one Brit, among a number of other casualties.
The likelihood of dying or getting injured during a commercial flight is extremely rare, with one fatal aircraft incident in every 4.17 million flights flown last year.
While you are much, much more likely to die in a car than a plane crash, many people find flying to be a terrifying experience.
Different airlines do have different safety records, so it might be worth checking them out.
The EU keeps a list of airlines deemed too unsafe to operate within the bloc – as well as the UK – which is the closest thing out there to a definitive list of countries with dangerous aviation industries.
Countries that have all of their airlines currently banned by the EU
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Angola
- Congo
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Kyrgyzstan
- Liberia
- Libya
- Nepal
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Sierra Leone
- Sudan
The EU also black bans six specific airlines from other parts of the world, including Venezuela’s Avior Airlines, Suriname’s Blue Wing Airlines, Iran’s Iran Aseman Airlines, Iraq’s Iraqi Airways, Nigeria’s Med-View Airlines, and Zimbabwe’s eponymous Zimbabwe Airlines.
