Find out how many plane crashes, commercial and non-commercial, have happened in the United States in 2025.
In light of recent aviation issues and catastrophic plane crashes across the United States, travelers have grown increasingly concerned about flying, whether on commercial or non-commercial aircraft. In just one week at the end of January 2025, a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines flight collided near Washington D.C. Days later, a medical jet transporting a child patient crashed in Northeast Philadelphia.
Adding to these tragedies, an Air India flight crashed into a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad, India, on June 12, 2025. The plane was carrying more than 240 people on board.
Below, read what the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and multiple outlets have reported regarding plane crashes and aviation issues this year.
The number of plane crashes, accidents, and other issues varies per year. On average, there have been about 250 near-midair collisions reported by any piloted aircraft over the last 20 years, CBS News reported. Over the past five years, there were around 385 of these crashes every year, which equates to more than one incident per day, according to the outlet.
Aviation attorney and former U.S. Air Force navigator Jim Brauchle told Newsweek in January 2025 that “there is probably, maybe not every day, but probably on average, every other day, a plane crash somewhere in the United States.” He added those crashes involved non-commercial aircraft “almost 99 percent of the time.”
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, there have been 606 aviation accidents so far in 2025. Of these, 113 were considered fatal accidents, and 493 were non-fatal.
On February 10, Mötley Crüe vocalist Vince Neil‘s private plane collided with another aircraft. He was not on board, but the pilot of the plane was killed. Just two days later, a Navy fighter jet crashed into San Diego Bay near Shelter Island on February 12. Per Fox 5, authorities confirmed that the two pilots onboard were rescued.
