More airliner deaths in 2025 despite fewer accidents: IATA
The Straits Times
There were 394 dead in eight fatal air crashes 2025, against 244 dead from seven accidents in 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - More people died in air crashes in 2025 despite fewer reported accidents, the main aviation industry body said on March 9, blaming two high profile disasters in India and the United States.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said there were 394 dead in eight fatal air crashes 2025, against 244 dead from seven fatal accidents in 2024.
IATA highlighted the role of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad in June 2025 which left 241 dead and a collision in the US between a Bombardier CRJ700, operated by an American Airlines subsidiary, and a military helicopter in January 2025 that killed 64 people on board the plane.
IATA’s figures only counted the dead from the airliners.
Not tallied in its data were the 19 people killed on the ground in the Indian crash, and the three crew on the US military helicopter who died in the Washington collision.
Full reports are still being prepared for each disaster.
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