(Bloomberg) — The Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps ends the longest period in modern aviation history without a fatal accident on a large European passenger plane.
The last crash on a European-registered plane carrying 100 or more passengers was almost six years ago when a Paris-bound Air France plane crashed while crossing the Atlantic Ocean after leaving Brazil, according to accident data.
European and U.S. carriers have been in their safest period ever after decades of technology and pilot-training improvements gradually eliminated one cause of accidents after another, said Steve Wallace, the former accident investigation chief at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
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