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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.