Charleston International Airport safety profile
16 recorded occurrences at or near Charleston International Airport (2000–2025): 4 at the airport, 12 nearby; 2 fatal, 2 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 93 runway incursions at this airport, including 3 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2020-03-21 (1 fatalities) — 0.3 km
- 2010-04-01 — Ratcliffe Kolb Mark 3X (1 fatalities) — 0.3 km
- 2022-06-12 — 0.3 km
- 2014-03-20 — 0.3 km
- 2012-07-28 — Boeing Commercial Airplanes — 0.3 km
- 2012-03-15 — HILTON HEAD FLYERS LLC — 0.3 km
- 2012-02-13 — Charleston Helicopters — 7.7 km
- 2011-08-09 — ARTHUR THAYER R JR — 0.3 km
- 2009-04-05 — 0.3 km
- 2008-08-03 — John T. Parker — 0.3 km
Runways
- 15/33: 9,001 ft, CON, lighted
- 03/21: 7,000 ft, ASP, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 29.796 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 62.991 days/year
- Snow: 1.2 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.061% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.