Portland International Airport (PDX) Safety Profile: Incident History & Data

What happens most

By year

20252 (0 fatal)
20221 (0 fatal)
20191 (0 fatal)
20181 (0 fatal)
20151 (0 fatal)
20141 (0 fatal)
20121 (0 fatal)
20104 (0 fatal)
20083 (1 fatal)
20052 (0 fatal)
20011 (0 fatal)
19982 (0 fatal)
19971 (0 fatal)
19961 (0 fatal)
19951 (0 fatal)

By flight phase

Other / unknown13
Landing3
Takeoff2
On the ground2
Approach1
Cruise1
Climb1

Runway incursions

The FAA Runway Safety database records 79 runway incursions at this airport. Full runway incursion history.

Notable investigated occurrences

2008-02-16 — Lancair LC41 550-FG, Richard E. Otoski (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2025-09-02 — Gulfstream Aerospace G-V, SPEEDERO LLC — 0.1 km
2025-04-04 — 0.5 km
2022-07-08 — Hillsboro Aero Academy — 0.0 km
2019-04-10 — Tailwheel Productions Llc — 0.1 km
2018-05-02 — 0.0 km
2015-11-17 — Ameriflight — 0.0 km
2014-09-19 — 0.0 km
2012-02-13 — McDonnell Douglas MD10-30, FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION — 0.6 km
2010-10-11 — Snohomish Flying Services — 0.0 km
2010-09-30 — Hillsboro Aviation Inc — 0.0 km
2010-02-09 — 0.0 km

Runways

10R/28L: 11,000 ft, ASP, lighted
10L/28R: 9,825 ft, ASP, lighted
3/21: 6,000 ft, ASP, lighted

Weather patterns

Fog: 31.996 days/year
Thunderstorms: 7.199 days/year
Snow: 10.699 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 0.014% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations

Related datasets

Wildlife strikes2,817
CADORS occurrences1

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.