U.S Aviation Fatalities by year
U.S Aviation Fatalities by year
Data scraped from Aviation Safety Network
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Ooh, now do some linear extrapolation. We're gonna break some records in 2025. Too bad they're the ones you don't want to break.
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Unfortunately, this graph doesn’t consider that one incident can skew the data strongly because large incidents don’t happen yearly. (And the last incident of this magnitude was This means you can’t infer a trend from this graph alone.
If you include dates back to the 1990s, things look a lot worse then than now.
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That one bad incident (I assume you mean the helicoptor crash) had 67 fatalities. If you remove it, you still get 19 across 4 accidents, which is still way worse than previous years
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This should be in the title. This makes the data more intresting.
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Was 2001 a bad year because of 9/11?
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But have you considered it's still only February
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Damn, 2020 looks good. Whatever we did that year saved a lot of lives!
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omg! someone needs to do something about access to this data! /s
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Fuck. I’m old.
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This data only seems to cover part 121 and part 135 fatalities. In 2012, that was 9.
https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/2012-Avaiation-Accident-Summary.aspx
Assuming we can trust a .gov site’s data.
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Surpassing Trump's 2nd last year in office.
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The data oligarchs now have makes it easy to kill political opponents with plausible deniability.
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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
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.