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by Beverly Durfee on January 3, 2007
The accident rate was the lowest in 53 years, although the International Civil Aviation Organization said air travel in 2006 increased by 4 percent to about 2.1 billion passengers worldwide.
Other facts:
Almost a third of all crashes last year occurred in North America, with 45 in the United States alone.
The deadliest crash was that of a Tupolev-154 in Ukraine in August in which 170 people died.
While the largest number of fatalities usually occurs when a large, jet-powered plane crashes, three-quarters of accidents last year involved smaller, propeller-powered planes.
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