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Is there something especially significant about this crash? Or is this only because there was a large crash recently?
by echoangle 2y ago
Is there something especially significant about this crash? Or is this only because there was a large crash recently?
- iterance 2y agoEdit: Incorrect. Original comment: Any plane crash in the US is unusual and significant.
- vultour 2y agoNo it's not, small planes crash frequently.
- noman-land 2y agoHow frequently?
- mindcrime 2y agoSomebody could probably answer that using data from FAA, NTSB, NHTSA or whatever, but it's probably all offline right now. :-( EDIT: FWIW, the NTSB incident search site still seems to be up. https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQueryv2.aspx https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQueryv2.aspx
- mulmen 2y agoAccording to NTSB 210 in 2021. So a few times a week. https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/GeneralAviationDashboard.aspx https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/GeneralAviationDashbo...
- gs17 2y agohttps://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/monthly-dashboard.aspx https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/monthly-dashboard.asp... has a dashboard with the NTSB's aviation data. It lists 8 fatal accidents so far this year.
- cowgoesmoo 2y agoMultiple accidents per day. A fatal one every ~2 days https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institute/accident-analysis/joseph-t-nall-report/28th-nall-report/non-commercial-fixed-wing https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institut...
- ranger207 2y agoSeveral per day, not all of them fatal https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/year/2025/1/N https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/year/2025/1/N
- jmward01 2y agoI'd argue that the fact that it isn't frequent makes it insignificant. 40k people die every year on the roads and, to our detriment, we don't treat that as significant. I wish we would focus on things actually impacting people and not scare people with things that will never happen to them.
- krunck 2y agoAnybody got statistics on air crashes in the US so we can see if the anomaly is only in the attention the crashes receive and not the frequency at which they are happening?
- angoragoats 2y ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 2y agoNo, the last one was in 2009. 16 year streak for US airlines. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/30/business/us-airlines-warnings-ahead-of-crash https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/30/business/us-airlines-warn... > US airlines had gone 16 years without a fatal crash until Wednesday night. There’ve been a few fatal incidents, but not crashes for the actual airlines.
- angoragoats 2y agoPlease read the link I posted instead of just saying “No.” Your article is specifically talking about commercial airline flights, but mine was talking about any passenger-carrying flight.
- ceejayoz 2y agoYour post says “passenger airline crash”, and your link includes non-crash accidents. I also said quite a bit more than no, including a citation. A C-172 can carry passengers, but is not an airliner.
- angoragoats 2y agoThank you, I have updated my post to be clearer. In the future it’d be great if you’d give the information in this comment in your initial reply. Also, while I did clear up the wording, I stand by my original use of the word “airline,” as most if not all of these incidents (and certainly the most recent ones) were operated by commercial aircraft companies.
- sonofhans 2y agoTwenty-odd years ago there was a rash of US politicians killed in aircraft accidents. This seems like a good source — look at the cluster in late 90s, early 00s - https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html Very few since then, so it’s much more of an outlier now.