The crash in DC is the big one and accounts for about 2/3 of the 2025 numbers. Incidents like that don’t happen every year and will skew this somewhat.
That said, removing that outlier still leaves us with enough fatalities in 2 months to reach our yearly average. I think many of them are still being investigated, so it’s hard to say for sure what would cause this increase.
![[OC] U.S Aviation Fatalities by year](https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.imgchest.com%2Ffiles%2F49zc2kaljpy.png){kind=link}
I’m OOTL. I assume some sort of funding or regulation got dropped or is it just freaky coincidence?
The crash in DC is the big one and accounts for about 2/3 of the 2025 numbers. Incidents like that don’t happen every year and will skew this somewhat.
That said, removing that outlier still leaves us with enough fatalities in 2 months to reach our yearly average. I think many of them are still being investigated, so it’s hard to say for sure what would cause this increase.
It’s hard to say, but
this was before the major accident: [1] https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c [2] https://www.latintimes.com/aoc-says-trump-gutted-aviation-safety-committee-last-week-blames-him-elon-dc-crash-574130
This started later, no crashes have happened since then https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437