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86,000 NTSB events · 1948 → present

Every accident. Every year. One map.

Pull the year slider back to 1962. Find every fatal Cessna 172 accident on the East Coast. Toggle to night-only events near mountainous airports. Click any pin for the verbatim NTSB report.

Data: NTSB CAROL via FAA-distributed avall.mdb / Pre1982.MDB · Map © OpenStreetMap contributors

Methodology + caveats.

Coordinates: 76,415 events have exact lat/lon from the FAA's avall.mdb / Pre2008.mdb bulk databases. The remaining 9,611 events plot at the centroid of their reported state — pre-1982 NTSB records stored location at state level only. Hover any pin to see if its position is exact or state-approximate.

Severity codes follow NTSB Form 6120: Fatal > Serious > Minor > None > Unknown. The "highest injury" field is per-event, not per-aircraft.