Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) Safety Profile: Incident History & Data

What happens most

By year

20261 (0 fatal)
20241 (0 fatal)
20231 (0 fatal)
20223 (0 fatal)
20211 (0 fatal)
20201 (0 fatal)
20192 (0 fatal)
20185 (3 fatal)
20172 (0 fatal)
20151 (0 fatal)
20142 (1 fatal)
20132 (0 fatal)
20121 (0 fatal)
20112 (0 fatal)
20091 (1 fatal)
20082 (0 fatal)
20041 (0 fatal)
19861 (0 fatal)

By flight phase

Other / unknown16
Climb5
Landing4
Approach2
On the ground2
Cruise1

Runway incursions

The FAA Runway Safety database records 213 runway incursions at this airport, including 7 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.

Notable investigated occurrences

2018-04-04 — Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (2 fatalities) — 0.3 km
2014-06-10 — Phoenix East Aviation (2 fatalities) — 0.3 km
2018-07-05 — Swearingen SX-300 (1 fatalities) — 0.3 km
2009-05-25 — COMMONWEALTH AVIATION CORP (1 fatalities) — 0.3 km
2024-11-15 — Phoenix East Aviation — 0.3 km
2023-12-30 — Leading Edge Helicopters — 0.3 km
2022-06-30 — SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY — 0.3 km
2021-05-14 — Phoenix East Aviation — 0.3 km
2020-02-20 — Private — 0.3 km
2019-10-27 — 0.3 km
2019-08-18 — Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 0.3 km
2018-10-16 — Jabiru 250 — 7.9 km

Runways

07L/25R: 10,500 ft, ASP, lighted
16/34: 6,001 ft, ASP, lighted
07R/25L: 3,195 ft, ASP, lighted

Weather patterns

Fog: 32.596 days/year
Thunderstorms: 94.487 days/year
Snow: 0.2 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 0.045% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0.004% of observations

Related datasets

Wildlife strikes913

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.