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No it's not, small planes crash frequently.

How frequently?

Multiple accidents per day. A fatal one every ~2 days

https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institut...

Several per day, not all of them fatal https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/year/2025/1/N

https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/monthly-dashboard.asp... has a dashboard with the NTSB's aviation data. It lists 8 fatal accidents so far this year.

Somebody could probably answer that using data from FAA, NTSB, NHTSA or whatever, but it's probably all offline right now. :-(

EDIT:

FWIW, the NTSB incident search site still seems to be up.

https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQueryv2.aspx

According to NTSB 210 in 2021. So a few times a week.

https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/GeneralAviationDashbo...

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