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Edit: Incorrect. Original comment: Any plane crash in the US is unusual and significant.

• vultour 2y ago
  No it's not, small planes crash frequently.
  • noman-land 2y ago
    How frequently?
    • mindcrime 2y ago
      Somebody 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 ago
      According 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 ago
      https://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 ago
      Multiple 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 ago
      Several 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 ago
  I'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.