Planes have been around for almost 120 years. The first successful flight of one was done by the Wright Brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Although this site catalogs many plane crashes, it is important to remember that is more than a century's worth of data. Compared to other forms of travel such as road travel, flight remains the safest by far.
Notre Dame Plane Fact: Did you know that legendary ND football coach Knute Rockne died in a plane crash? If you search around some just to the east of the center of the US, you can find the dot on the map below.
This website is organized into two pages other than the main page shown here. Feel free to first take some time on this page browsing around the larger map and reading about various plane crashes. Then explore the other pages. The first is all about plane crashes in time. Gain insight from how plane crashes have changed over time, or by looking at trends in crashes throughout the year or the day. The other page is all about different plane manufacturers, and how plane crashes vary between them. All data is taken from planecrashinfo.com, as linked below.