Airplane Crashes
Commercial scheduled air travel is among the safest modes of transportation; the lifetime odds of dying as an aircraft passenger in the United States was too small to calculate. Preliminary estimates of the total number of accidents involving a U.S. registered civilian aircraft decreased from 1,216 in 2023 to 1,201 in 2024. The number of civil aviation deaths decreased from 327 in 2023 to 321 in 2024. All but 5 of the 321 deaths in 2024 were onboard fatalities. None of these deaths involved a commercial scheduled airline.
Use the interactive chart to explore aviation accident trends by U.S. air carrier category. Major airlines (scheduled service) experienced no onboard fatalities and had a fatal accident rate of 0.0 per 100,000 flight hours in 2024. This contrasts sharply with general aviation, which experienced 300 onboard fatalities and had a fatal accident rate of 0.721 per 100,000 flight hours.
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