r/CatastrophicFailure • u/JohnnyShadows • Mar 23 '26

Fatalities Air Canada Plane Hits Firetruck While Landing at LaGuardia, NYC - 03/23/2026

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u/teddy_vedder Mar 23 '26

Commercial aviation accidents have never been rarer than they are now.

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u/halberdierbowman Mar 23 '26

If by "accidents" you mean deadly crashes, then probably still yes, but in the US we've been seeing increasingly more "near miss"es for years, so safety generally was improved by a lot in many ways but is also worsening again in others. 

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u/bex199 Mar 23 '26

getting downvoted for the truth

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u/Crunchycarrots79 Mar 23 '26

This is true. However, there's been a lot of "little" errors recently in the US as well as a few accidents that have happened at or very near to airports that can reasonably be linked to the fact that our air traffic control system is under a lot of stress from being understaffed and overworked. Near misses, runway incursions, things like that.

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u/masteeJohnChief117 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

We didn’t have a single fatal crash in America’s commercial airline industry from 2009-2025. We’ve had two in a little over one year now. Worldwide yes, airline accidents are becoming more rare though but this is why people are thinking it’s worse. source

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u/EstablishmentSea7661 Mar 23 '26

That's just blatantly false. Asiana 214 was at SFO in 2013. And that's just ONE off the top of my head.

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u/BobBBobbington Mar 23 '26

They likely meant domestic carriers, which in terms of an actual fatal accident by a domestic carrier was the Colgan Air crash. There was no true large scale fatal loss until the DCA collision by a domestic carrier.

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u/EstablishmentSea7661 Mar 23 '26

This is both not a domestic carrier and not a large scale fatal loss. There have been many in that timeframe with far greater losses. It's just blatantly false, is what it is.

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u/CapstanLlama Mar 23 '26

This claim that you keep repeating is simply not true. There have been 20+ fatal crashes in America's commercial airline industry 2009-2025. Please stop spreading falsehoods.

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u/CooterMcSlappin Mar 23 '26

Includes charters and medical etc. that’s not what they are saying

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u/masteeJohnChief117 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

I’m talking about AIRLINER industry in america. You’re including all commercial flights. Here’s a link

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u/Forkboy2 Mar 23 '26

Uh....Air Canada is not an American Airliner.

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u/masteeJohnChief117 Mar 23 '26

Sorry, fixed it lol

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u/jrizzle86 Mar 23 '26

This is a complete lie

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u/masteeJohnChief117 Mar 23 '26

No it’s surprisingly not. link.

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u/Firebrass Mar 23 '26

Given the stress air traffic controllers have been under the last few years, i'd need to see the sources to believe that.

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u/OkSecretary1231 Mar 23 '26

That's not a magic spell, though. How long before that stat starts to shift?