what is the percent of plane crashes every year?

Question

how many planes crash each year? what percent or total flights never make it to their destination?

Answer 1

According to the Census Bureau, in 1999, there were just over 2000 aircraft accidents in the U.S. , over 1900 of which were "small planes" engaged in personal transit. Only 400+ of the total accidents involved fatalities.

Statistically, the most dangerous part of flying is the drive to the airport.

Answer 2

These answers here are very very loaded and misleading. Its true that there were nearly 2000 "accidents" involving aircraft last year. However, the FAA defines the term "accident" to include any incident that results in death, injury, serious damage to the aircraft or damage to property on the ground that exceeds $20,000. So this statistic is fact different than the term "crash." Personally, I'll define "crash" to mean any airplane that departs for its destination, initiates a takeoff and doesn't complete its flight.

This eliminates all the idiots that simply drive off a taxiway and bend their lairplanes, or accidentally drive their BMWs into their wingtips. Both of those would constitute "accidents" under the FAA rule, but in my mind constitute idiocy.

There are something like 250-300 airplane "crashes" during an average year, which result in about 180 fatalities (again on average). Considering there are approximately 40,000 aircraft currently registered in the US, that is a crash rate of about .00625%. Sitting on your couch watching tv is statistically more dangerous.

AND the cast majority of these are privately owned aircraft (In fact nearly all of them since 2001 have been.) There has been exactly 1 crash of a US based commercial airliner since January 1, 2002...over 5 years. That was a Comair Airlines CRJ-200 flight out of Lexington, KY that killed all but one person on board.

Answer 3

Very good answer Jason! I can't believe the first two answers! 15% of all aircraft crash, or 30-50% percent of planes crash! That was good one! If that were the case, the FAA would shut down aviation.

Think about this, about 45,000 people die on our highways each year. Yet almost no one dies in a plane crash. You do the math!

Answer 4

The first two answers are pure trash, and I wish people who know absolutely nothing about a subject would just go home and play with their Tinkertoys.

Anyway, consider that there are some 8,000 flights a day in the US (about half are airlines), and try to think how many actual "crashes" (see other answers) are involved.

Funny about your framing, too. Do you have any idea how many cars crash? Of course it's meaningless to compare these things, this way. Some good information is available at www.ntsb.gov and www.fsf.org.

Answer 5

Approximately 180 people die every year in aircraft crashes, nearly all of them in small General Aviation aircraft. Over 45,000 die in the US alone on the highways, some of them undoubtedly on their way to or from the airport.

There hasn't been a fatal airline crash in the US for 5 years. In those 5 years there have been about 7.3 million airline flights. That crunches out to .000000136% of airline flights that don't arrive safely.

I'll take my chances in-flight any time, INCLUDING the minimal threat from terrorism. And I fly about 250,000 miles a year.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I guess you're trying to measure relative safety.

Firstly, you need to separate commercial airlines from private pilot statistics. Commercial airlines are *much* safer than private pilots, and are the basis of "driving to the airport is the most dangerous part of the journey".

However, even private plane operations aren't as dangerous as many people think.

About 10 years ago, I did a comparison of the risk of death or injury in private flying versus driving about 200 miles. Flying was a bit more dangerous, about as bad as driving in bad weather. You have more chance of being killed flying, but more chance of being injured if you drive.

Answer 8

About 35- 50 percent of planes crash a year.And that person was right most planes that crash are small ones.Its not that often you will see the news say an Delta 737 crashed today,but they always saying that Cessna crashed today.

Answer 9

Well over 99.9% land safely at their destination.

Answer 10

15% most planes that crash are small ones