Skip to content

Airline SafetyRecords

Now boarding: the facts

Airline safety records, without digging through the FAA database

Articles on airline safety, airline industry news and every commercial crash we have listed since 2014.

View the crash log →

Commercial Airplane

Safety records & data

REC-01Commercial airplanes are safer than private aircraftHave you ever been on a small private plane or helicopter? If you have, then you took a far greater risk than flying on a major airline. You are many, many times more likely to be involved in a crash on a private plane than on a commercial airline. Harrison Ford alone has been in multiple crashes where he was the pilot of a small private aircraft.Read →REC-02Overview of publicly available aviation safety recordsThe FAA provides an absolute treasure trove of data and makes it available to the general public. Sometimes, you can get too much of a good thing and all the information can look pretty intimidating. This overview will help you navigate through their database to find what you are looking for.Read →REC-03Safest seat in a commercial airplaneEver wonder where the safest place to sit is on an airplane? If you look at records of crashes where there were fatalities, but at least one person survived you will find a statistical advantage of survival if you are sitting in a certain area.Read →REC-04Top 4 safest commercial airlines in the worldLooking at all the available FAA records on commercial airline crashes you will find a four names that really stand out when it comes to safety. This is my list of the top 4 safest airline companies in the world based on the number of incidents versus the number of flights over the longest periods of time.Read →

Industry news

NWS-01Can a passenger really hack into Boeing 737 flight controls?A person that works in internet security claims that he was able to take over the flight control systems of a Boeing 737 while he was physically on the airplane as a passenger. The FBI is investigating this guy, but his story seems extremely unlikely especially since he claims to have done it multiple times on different flights.Read →NWS-02Should depression be a deal breaker for pilots?Everyone has the potential to suffer from depression, even pilots. Should we permanently bar commercial pilots from flying if they have a history of depression? This is one potential way to try to avoid what happened on Germanwings flight 9525 where all evidence points to the co-pilot intentionally crashing the plane.Read →

Why this site exists

This goal of this site is to make it easy to find information on the safety records of commercial airlines. The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has a massive database that has more data than you would ever want access to. They publish and maintain a comprehensive amount of information on both commercial and private aircraft. This data is very useful if you know what you are looking for and if you know how to look for it.

I learned this the hard way while I was doing research for a school project. A very helpful librarian assisted me and really educated me on the various types of data that is publicly available. I found the information to be extremely helpful so I thought I would share my experience on this website.

You will find articles on topics related to airline safety as well as airline industry news and information on all the commercial crashes that have occurred since 2014.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments, questions, or concerns about this website. Also, please let me know if you find an error or if you would like me to list a crash on this site.