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World’s least safe airlines for 2016
AirlineRatings.com has released the results of an annual survey of the world’s major airlines and in doing so revealed the least safe airline for 2016.
To formulate its rankings the website examined audits from aviation governing bodies, governments, fatality records as well as operational histories and incident records.
The website provides safety ranks as a star rating for 407. The top score is seven stars (of which 148 airlines achieved) while 50 airlines had just three stars or less.
10 airlines, all from Nepal, Indonesia or Surinam, qualified for just one or zero stars for 2016:
- Batik Air
- Bluewing Airlines
- Citilink
- Kal-Star Aviation
- Lion Air
- Sriwijaya Air
- TransNusa
- Trigana Air Service
- Wings Air
- Xpress Air
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