Frequent travelers are growing increasingly concerned about a series of back-to-back aviation incidents that have occurred since the start of 2025. At the beginning of the year, an American Airlines jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., resulting in the deaths of all 67 passengers. Following that, a medical transport plane crashed in Northeast Philadelphia , a United Airlines flight started smoking shortly before takeoff in Houston, Texas, and a Delta Airlines flight crash-landed in Toronto. The tragedies have been going on for months now, the most recent being two Delta jets colliding on the taxiway of New York’s Laguardia Airport.
Global fears intensified following the devastating crash of Air India Flight AI 171 in June, which killed 241 people an