The accident map
37,201 of the NTSB's 94,297 U.S. cases since 1982 (39%) carry a recorded position; the rest are placed only by town. Each is a dot; fatal cases are red. Drag the slider or press play to watch the years go by. About 41% of cases before 2000 have a position and 37% of those since 2010, so the years compare fairly.
What the dots mean
Fatal accident Accident or incident, no deaths
One dot per case, at the position the NTSB recorded. Heat view: warmer colors where cases cluster.
Red dots are fatal cases, blue are the rest. Click a dot for the case. Positions are the NTSB's own; a few are rounded to the nearest town. Map: OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Where the numbers come from
- NTSB aviation accident database, records to 2026-09-30; positions as the NTSB recorded them
Computed once a night by this site from the public files named above; nothing here identifies a person. All analytics pages.