Los Angeles International Airport safety profile
43 recorded occurrences at or near Los Angeles International Airport (1981–2026): 13 at the airport, 30 nearby; 2 fatal, 2 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 481 runway incursions at this airport, including 8 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2023-04-30 (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2021-02-19 (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2026-03-02 — UNITED AIRLINES INC — 0.4 km
- 2022-09-22 — Hawaiian Airlines — 0.1 km
- 2021-03-16 — Skywest Airlines — 0.1 km
- 2020-11-06 — Helinet Aviation Services — 0.0 km
- 2020-02-03 — Kalitta Air — 0.1 km
- 2019-12-05 — Airbus AS-350-B2, Helinet Aviation Services Llc — 0.0 km
- 2017-11-19 — Southwest Airlines — 0.3 km
- 2017-03-06 — Delta Air Lines — 0.0 km
- 2014-07-11 — Delta Air Lines — 0.1 km
- 2013-06-06 — Southern California Helicopters — 0.0 km
Runways
- 7L/25R: 12,894 ft, CON, lighted
- 7R/25L: 11,095 ft, CON, lighted
- 6R/24L: 10,859 ft, CON, lighted
- 6L/24R: 8,926 ft, CON, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 31.296 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 4.199 days/year
- Snow: 0 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.11% 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.