Boeing statistics show the number of accidents increased in 2021 over the previous year, but fatal accidents and fatalities declined.
The worldwide commercial jet fleet experienced 23 accidents in 2021, including one fatal crash that killed all 62 passengers and crew, according to new Boeing data. In comparison, 17 accidents, including three fatal accidents with 122 fatalities, were recorded in 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.1
A study links flawed decision-making to more than half of all U.S. fatal crashes involving private pilots in single-engine airplanes.
Boeing data show rates are decreasing in all seven regions of the world.
EASA data show one EU-based airline was involved in a fatal accident in 2022; two people outside the airplane were killed.
