Aviation accidents in United States

The NTSB database holds 170,986 accidents and incidents in United States, recorded between 1948 to 2026. 27,507 of them were fatal (16%), and 57,754 people died.

The deadliest year was 1978, with 1,884 deaths.

The phase of flight recorded most often is landing (39,069 records).

The aircraft types that appear most often are Cessna 172, Cessna 150 and Piper PA-28.

5,473 of these records cannot be placed at all, so they appear in the list below but not on the map.

For 89,489 of them the NTSB recorded no coordinates, so their position on the map is approximate.