Plane Crashes and Other Significant
Airline Safety Events by Airline
The following values for each airline includes the number of fatal plane crashes and other fatal events since 1970, the year of the most recent passenger death, the estimated number of flights since 1970, and an estimate of the fatal event rate per million flights. Below you will find estimates of each airline's passenger death rate, and also links to the crash record of the airline. The number of fatal airliner events is current as of the revision date at the bottom of the page, but the number of flights is the estimate through the end of 2005.
This page has links to selected airlines of the United States and Canada, and to other pages that cover other areas of the world. Links to other plane crash pages are in the box below:
Plane Crashes by Region of the World
United States and Canada (see below)
Latin America and the Caribbean
Europe
Africa and the Middle East
Asia, Australia and the Pacific region
Airline Crashes in the United States and Canada
| Airline | Rate | Flights | FLE* | Events | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Canada+ | 0.33 | 4.75M | 1.58 | 3 | 1983 |
| AirTran (ValuJet) | 0.94 | 1.06M | 1.00 | 1 | 1996 |
| Alaska Airlines | 0.33 | 6.13M | 2.02 | 3 | 2000 |
| Aloha Airlines | 0.56 | 1.77M | 1.00 | 1 | 1989 |
| American Airlines** | 0.40 | 25.08M | 10.08 | 13 | 2004 |
| American Trans Air | 0.00 | 0.69M | 0.00 | 0 | - |
| Continental Airlines** | 0.24 | 10.39M | 2.47 | 6 | 2009 |
| Delta Air Lines** | 0.17 | 24.8M | 4.24 | 7 | 2006 |
| Hawaiian Airlines | 0.00 | 0.66M | 0.00 | 0 | - |
| JetBlue Airlines | 0.00 | 0.35M | 0.00 | 0 | - |
| Midwest Express | 1.92 | 0.52M | 1.00 | 1 | 1985 |
| Northwest Airlines** | 0.21 | 12.51M | 2.61 | 4 | 1993 |
| Southwest Airlines | 0.00 | 15.26M | 0.00 | 0 | - |
| United Airlines** | 0.31 | 21.9M | 6.69 | 11 | 2001(2) |
| US Airways** | 0.28 | 17.63M | 4.97 | 9 | 2003 |
* Fatal event rate is given by a value called Full Loss Equivalent (FLE) for each listed airline.
** Airline has either a subsidiary or a parent airline that was responsible for at least one fatal event since 1970.
+ Number of flights is for the period 1970-1999
Additional Aircraft Accident
and Airline Fleet Information
Review
NTSB accident and incident records
Details on AirSafe.com analysis method
US Airline
Fleet Populations
Estimated Age of US AirlineFleets
Fear of Flying Resources
http://airsafe.com/airline.htm -- Revised: 21 June 2010