USA records 87 reported aviation incidents so far for 2025

According to data from the United States of America’s (USA) National Transportation Safety Board, there have been 87 aviation accidents in 2025. January recorded 62, while 25 have been reported in the month of February so far, as of Tuesday, 18.

The information came following the crash landing on Monday, February 17, of Delta Air Lines which was carrying 80 people (76 passengers with four crew members) from Minnesota, USA and crashed in Canada at the Toronto Pearson International Airport.

After the crash, the aircraft was seen in a belly-up position as persons evacuated the plane. Eighteen persons, including a child, were reported to have sustained non-life-threatening injuries. There were no deaths.
As of Monday, a total of 13 fatal aircraft accidents had occurred this year, 10 in January and three in February, according to the Transport Safety Board.

The January 29 mid-air collision between an American Airlines and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter remains the only fatal commercial aviation crash in the last 15 years. There were 67 deaths as a result of that crash.

Since then, three deadly aviation disasters have occurred in the USA this year. On January 31, 2025 in Philadelphia, a small medical jet carrying a child patient crashed into a Philadelphia neighbourhood, killing all six people on board and one on the ground. On February 6, in Alaska another small plane carrying 10 persons crashed after losing speed and altitude, then vanished from radar. No one was found alive after the aircraft was recovered. Four days later, on February 10, in Arizona, two private jets collided at the Scottsdale Airport killing one, and injuring four.

These recent aviation accidents have brought to 85 the number of people who died in US aviation disasters in 2025. Nonetheless, commercial US flights are still considered safe, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which stated that air travel is the absolute safest form of transport.

(Source: USA Today)