Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) Safety Profile: Incident History & Data

What happens most

By year

20231 (0 fatal)
20221 (0 fatal)
20183 (0 fatal)
20161 (0 fatal)
20141 (0 fatal)
20131 (0 fatal)
20121 (0 fatal)
20101 (0 fatal)
20062 (0 fatal)
19991 (0 fatal)
19982 (0 fatal)
19951 (0 fatal)
19931 (0 fatal)
19851 (0 fatal)
19821 (0 fatal)

By flight phase

Other / unknown17
Landing2

Runway incursions

The FAA Runway Safety database records 258 runway incursions at this airport, including 3 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.

Notable investigated occurrences

2023-05-31 — Rockwell International Corporation 695, ALLEN MYLAND INC — 0.1 km
2022-01-11 — Eurocopter EC135 P2+, AIR METHODS CORP — 9.9 km
2018-08-11 — Pegasus Elite Aviation — 10.5 km
2012-04-02 — 0.4 km

Runways

09R/27L: 12,000 ft, ASP, lighted
09L/27R: 9,500 ft, ASP, lighted
17/35: 6,500 ft, ASP, lighted
08/26: 5,001 ft, ASP, lighted

Weather patterns

Fog: 28.096 days/year
Thunderstorms: 36.195 days/year
Snow: 18.397 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 0.033% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations

Related datasets

Wildlife strikes3,227
CADORS occurrences2

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.