Out of curiosity’s sake:
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/airplane-crashes/
“preliminary estimates of the total number of accidents involving a U.S. registered civilian aircraft increased from 1,220 in 2021 to 1,277 in 2022. The number of civil aviation deaths decreased from 373 in 2021 to 358 in 2022.”
https://www.newsweek.com/plane-crash-statistics-american-airlines-2023691
“According to the NTSB, there were 1,017 non-fatal and 199 fatal plane crashes in 2023 among the over 48 million flight hours clocked in that year.”
So, around 1,200 crashes a year, 23 a week.
Must be a lot of crashes we just don’t hear about.
My uncle was a pilot and ran his little plane off the end of the runway. That counted as a crash.
Most of them are General Aviation (GA) accidents. Those are smaller private planes.
According to the 2019 US data (NTSB), Part 121 (Commercial Jets) accounted for 2 fatal accidents, Part 135 (Rental/Private jet) accounted for 13 fatal accidents, and GA accounted for 233 fatal accidents.
This results in a fatal accident split of 0.8% for Commercial, 5% for Private, and 94% GA.
