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.
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.
One patient on board had received care at Shriner’s Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, the hospital said. The child and their mother were returning home to Mexico, according to Shriner’s.
Excited to see if the country has a measured response to this news
Small private plane, details still in flux.
Not a Cessna single engine piston plane, those crash often. It was a twin engine jet. Still in the “private plane” category, but it is a a more serious plane that requires a lot more experience to fly.
