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In the past decade, more than 1,100 civil aviation accidents — accidents involving nonmilitary flights using U.S.-registered aircraft — have occurred every year, with over 300 fatalities ...

SUMMARY: Aviation accidents dropped by about 10 percent between 2019 and 2020, according to the 32nd annual Joseph T. Nall report, produced by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Air ...

In 2019 and 2021, no officers died from an aircraft accident, in 2020, one died, four officers have died this year due to an air-related accident, more than the past three years combined.

Air carrier accidents, which include commercial passenger flights as well as commercial cargo flights, averaged 27 per year from 2012 to 2022. Of 300 accidents during that period, six were fatal.

Of 300 accidents during that period, six were fatal. In a 2024 report, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics said that between 2013 and 2022, U.S. passenger airlines recorded 12 fatalities.