Comment on Small plane crashes in Northeast PhiladelphiaparentComments−krunck1yAnybody got statistics on air crashes in the US so we can see if the anomaly is only in the attention the crashes receive and not the frequency at which they are happening?−jonas211ySmall planes crash all the time:https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/year/2025/1Even if you only consider fatal crashes in the US, the last one before the DC incident was just this past Saturday.https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/473308−cozzyd1yI know small planes crash a lot, but I feel like small jets crashing is a bit more notable? Maybe just because there arent that many comparatively.−jonas211yI think the most recent small jet crash in the US was November 5:https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/458776
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Anybody got statistics on air crashes in the US so we can see if the anomaly is only in the attention the crashes receive and not the frequency at which they are happening?
Small planes crash all the time:
https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/year/2025/1
Even if you only consider fatal crashes in the US, the last one before the DC incident was just this past Saturday.
https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/473308
I know small planes crash a lot, but I feel like small jets crashing is a bit more notable? Maybe just because there arent that many comparatively.
I think the most recent small jet crash in the US was November 5:
https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/458776