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Events per year
Fatal Serious Minor None Unknown
Top aircraft makes
Top models
By US state
Light × severity
Seasonality
Severity mix
Numbers
| Severity | Events | % of total | Fatalities |
|---|
Time of day · — events
Relative to civil twilight
Minutes from computed civil dusk at each event's exact lat/lon and date.
Hour × weekday · — events
Causal findings · 33,424 findings
Personnel issues
14,982 findings · 44.8%
- Task performance 8,803
- Action/decision 4,440
- Psychological 1,359
- Physical 178
- Experience/knowledge 161
- Miscellaneous 41
Aircraft
13,709 findings · 41.0%
- Aircraft oper/perf/capability 8,262
- Aircraft systems 1,887
- Aircraft power plant 1,498
- Fluids/misc hardware 1,242
- Aircraft structures 343
- Aircraft propeller/rotor 305
Environmental
2,984 findings · 8.9%
- Conditions/weather/phenomena 1,570
- Physical environment 1,350
- Operating environment 50
- Task environment 14
Not determined
1,650 findings · 4.9%
- Not determined 1,650
Organizational
99 findings · 0.3%
- Development 40
- Management 32
- Support/oversight/monitoring 27
Density altitude × fatality rate · — events
Counts are events, not normalized rates — a make with more events isn't necessarily less safe, it might just be more common.