Aviation Accidents of the 2020s

19233 total · 3526 fatal · 7 years with data

Total occurrences
19,233
Fatal accidents
3,526
Hull losses
195
Total fatalities
11,989
Active span
2020–2029
2020s — accidents per year33972020202120222023202420252026

Year-by-year breakdown

YearTotalFatalFatalities
20202,9765592,053
20213,3676421,834
20223,3976141,854
20233,1435481,294
20243,0545332,092
20252,6124842,151
2026684146711

Frequently asked questions

How many aviation accidents occurred in the 2020s?

Our multi-source corpus documents 19,233 aviation accidents across the 2020s.

How many fatal accidents were there in the 2020s?

Of the 19,233 recorded accidents in the 2020s, 3,526 were fatal.

Which year in the 2020s had the most accidents?

See the year-by-year breakdown above for the full distribution across the decade.

Counts reflect occurrences documented in our multi-source corpus (NTSB, ASN, B3A and 80+ national investigation authorities); coverage varies by source and era and these are not official totals.

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