Safety and air accidents in Ecuador

We will analyze safety and accidentséprisoners in Ecuador, that since 1919 have represented más de 800 deceased in más de 40 events.

Security toéArea in Ecuador

it's not secret, Ecuador passedó through dark episodes throughout its historyéArea with a series of accidentséprisoners who generated great doubts about theásafety standards that hereí they applied.

Categoryía 1

On 1994, the moment was seenás difícil on security issues for the país, if I lostó the Categoryíto I of the FAA, what for 12 añus limitó totally aero growtháoffice of the paíyes and our aerosolídenies no podían fly to the United States.

in May 2006, the addressón General of Aviationón Civil – DGAC after la implementationón of a system that guarantees the safety of transportation toéprisoner implementing an Aviation Lawón Civil, regulations tétechniques, guías and manuals for inspectors, new infrastructureísica, new certification processesón para aerolílines and other details téregulatory cynics, allowed Ecuador to recover the Categoryía 1.

Categoryía 1 means that operatorséprisoners of said país, couldíto begin or continue service to the United States in a normal manner and to be able to participate in a recíproca in agreements of cóI say shared with Aerolílines of the United States.

This process that allowedó al país leave behindás to Categoryía 2, is based on the program International Aviation Safety Assessment – IASA con altos estástandards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization – ICAO. Since that dayía, Ecuador took a radical turn in security.

Flying now in Ecuador is high and totally safe, but as in the whole industry, jamáwith se holdá prevent new accidents and incidents from happening, but yesí everything to minimize them.

The úLast audit I went throughó Ecuador endedó the 2018, from which toún the final results are not known, but what ifí There were observations in which the authority mustá work.

The AñO 2015 The result of the ICAO audit leftó to Ecuador with very good results, which even in some points surpasses paíyour neighbors and what isán about the world average:

Compared with Colombia, Perú and Chile, our fatherís is superior in the grand majoríof aspects to the first two and follows Chile very closely, that regionally, It is one of the best results in its audit carried out in the 2017:

At úlast time, some people of opinionón have hinted that Ecuador will not beíinsurance in operationséreas, but the ICAO audits and each día más aerolíflights to Ecuador, confirm that this is not the caseí.

Más de $364 millions of dólares has invested Ecuador in enhancing the airport network and updating navigation systemsón, that at the regional level, has one of the mámodern s and más expands coverage.

Geographic factorsáficos, climáguys like the wind and others, they make our país be a particular place to operate, but despite that, the entire aeron systemáuseful (aerolídenies, airports, authority, services, etc) Eastá highly prepared to face them, and ensureí the safety of thousands of passengers and hundreds of operationséareas that are given to the día.

Accidents toéprisoners in Ecuador

From 1919, añor where accident records begin in the world, Ecuador has lived 48 accidents toéfatal prisoners in their territory with 97 total events classified as accidents, which brought as an unfortunate consequence, the death of 877 people reported.

In the records of ASN, The following accidents are foundéfatal prisoners. It should be noted, that this record is úonly military and commercial aircraft, aviation flights are not takenón lower than fumigationón and caníOther records are still missing that época no están complete or were not known público:

• The first recorded fatal accident was 17 July 1946 in Cuenca, avión Curtiss C-46D matríANDESA HC-SCA cylinder with 30 dead people.
• 17 accidents have been Force Aérea, Ejército o Marina.
• Tame it's the airínea with más accidents in Ecuador with 5 accidents and of them, spaghettiéin the más fatal of Ecuador with 119 deceased in Cuenca, avión Boeing 737-200 foodícula HC-BIG.
• Slabñyou with meás fatal accidents were 1949, 1979 and 1988 with 3 events each.
• From the first accident in 1946, a total of 41 añThere have been fatal accidents in Ecuador.
• From the 2000, there have only been 5 fatal accidents in Ecuador.

Comparing with the región, Ecuador maintains one of the minors íaccident rates, despite the bad times that our aviationón liveó añthe atreás:

The statesístatics also showén the positive changes that have been seen in the industry. They stay highásafety standards of both the airlinesíEcuadorian neas, like the international ones hereí operate, category airportsíto international, generate high securityérea in our país.