Plane Crashes and Event Rates By Airline Since 1970

Plane Crashes and Fatal Event Rates of Airlines
in the United States and Canada Since 1970

The following values for each airline includes the number of fatal events since 1970, the Full Loss Equivalent (FLE*) for each airline, the year of the most recent fatal event, the number of flights since 1970, and an estimate of the fatal event rate per million flights. Because the number of flights for each airline is an estimate, the fatal event rate is also an estimate. Unless otherwise stated, the number of fatal 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.

United States and Canada
Latin America and the Caribbean
Europe
Africa and the Middle East
Asia and Australasia

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

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*Details on analysis method
** 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

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