Data scraped from Aviation Safety Network
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Pretty striking - I’d add a title to the top and the source in the lower right. Would make it much more shareable.
Edit: And a note about 2025 only being up to February 17th. Because the graph may outlive the
next Delta flightweek.Sure, how does this look
Think that would be good to edit the post to show that image instead
done
Excellent 👍
Assuming this is counting people not crashes an average of 40 jumping to 80 doesn’t appear too shocking as I would think that meant one or so more crashes than normal. Unless it’s a bunch of really small planes.
The striking part is that it’s so much higher while we’re 7 weeks into the year. The other years include all 52 weeks. Also 40 is close to the maximum for previous years on the chart, not the average, which I’d estimate around 25.
Average is 26.92 excluding 2025
great point I didn’t consider that
Damn, 2020 looks good. Whatever we did that year saved a lot of lives!
There seems to be a lot of talk around airplane crashes these days, so I decided to figure out how bad it really was
Data from https://asn.flightsafety.org/ and plotted using pyplot
2025 Data is only until February 17th
So, it’s pretty impressive what you put in the graph, but what the fuck you think it’s happening?
EDIT: Sorry, I didn’t want to come across as ungrateful, it’s just too damn weird.
omg! someone needs to do something about access to this data! /s
NGL, 8 years seems a little sus. I’d have questioned it less if it were 10.
Was there something that happened in 2012 that would have made this less dramatic?
I propose the same graph but covering 25 years just to be sure to include a definite outlier.
8? It’s 12 full years + 25
I just made 10 paginated requests to the api, and that covered till partially through 2012, so I dumped that and did '13 through now
Fuck. I’m old.
Surpassing Trump’s 2nd last year in office.
Of the 85 this year, 79% (67) were from one crash.
Yet the Jan. 29 crash in Washington that killed 67 people is the only fatal commercial aviation crash in 2025 and in the past 15 years.
Y’all thinking this is meaningful have the memory of a goldfish.
