Miami International Airport safety profile
89 recorded occurrences at or near Miami International Airport (1981–2025): 21 at the airport, 68 nearby; 5 fatal, 5 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 251 runway incursions at this airport, including 4 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2023-12-27 — Hughes 369E (1 fatalities) — 0.3 km
- 2022-05-14 (1 fatalities) — 0.3 km
- 2025-08-20 — 0.3 km
- 2025-06-22 — AMERICAN AIRLINES INC — 0.3 km
- 2024-02-01 — GLOBAL AERIALS INC — 0.3 km
- 2024-01-19 — ATLAS AIR INC — 2.7 km
- 2023-12-18 — Beech A24R — 0.3 km
- 2023-04-18 — Rockwell International 112, ORTEGA MARCOS JOAQUIN — 0.3 km
- 2023-03-07 — PANAIR FLYING CLUB INC — 0.3 km
- 2023-01-28 — MOSQUERA DANIEL — 10.5 km
- 2022-06-21 — McDonnell Douglas MD-82, Red Air, SA — 0.3 km
- 2021-09-28 — Lantana Helicopters — 0.3 km
Runways
- 09/27: 13,016 ft, ASP, lighted
- 08R/26L: 10,506 ft, ASP, lighted
- 12/30: 9,360 ft, ASP, lighted
- 08L/26R: 8,600 ft, ASP, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 21.897 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 102.586 days/year
- Snow: 0 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.029% 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.