Cathay Pacific flies safe
According to Germany's Jet Airline Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC), Cathay Pacific has been named the safest airline. The JACDEC Safety Index takes factors such as hull loss accidents, revenue passenger kilometres, cumulative passenger data for the last 30 years, fatalities, accident-free years and the number of serious incidents into account to calculate a rating. Cathay Pacific was rated the second safest airline in 2014 and the third safest airline in 2013.
Rakesh Raicar, country manager for Cathay Pacific Southern Africa and Indian Ocean says "We will continue to make substantial investments in our aircraft, technical crew and support staff to maintain our excellent safety record."
One of the airline's most recent investments in aircraft safety and a five-year project in the making is a new application called Virtual Aircraft Training System (VATS). The software works in a similar way to Google Maps, putting the viewer in and outside an aircraft, offering a 360-degree panorama of all accessible areas on a plane. By clicking on the control panel on the app's interface, the viewer can navigate through the cabin, crew areas, maintenance compartment areas and the exterior of an aircraft, assisting crew members with visualising safety equipment shown for the Safety Training School.
Considering the billions of passengers that travel safely by air each year, JACDEC highlights that commercial aviation remains one of the safest ways to travel, with overall accident analysis revealing a long-term shift away from technical issues, towards human error or malevolent intention being the leading cause of aviation accidents.
Cathay Pacific flies from Johannesburg to Hong Kong seven days a week, connecting to hundreds of destinations across the globe.
