According to the Aviation Safety Network, no one died in 2017 due to an aviation accident aboard a commercial passenger jet. The agency also noted that as of Dec. 31, the world had gone 398 days without a passenger jet accident, and 792 days since a civil aircraft accident had killed more than 100 people. The last fatal passenger jet crash in the United States involving a U.S. certified airline occurred in February 2009, when a flight operated by Colgan Air crashed in New York, Reuters reported. A separate airline monitoring agency, the Dutch group To70, estimated that there was just one fatal accident for every 16 million flights. Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify that the last fatal passenger jet crash involving a U.S.-certified airline occurred in February 2009.

Source: Huffington Post January 02, 2018 07:18 UTC