A spate of deadly plane crashes in 2025 has already rocked aviation – and the year has only just started.
At least 117 people have been killed in air accidents since the start of 2025.
As the industry was reeling from the Washington DC disaster that killed 67 people in January, a Delta Airlines flight crashed at Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport when it tipped over on the runway in a fireball.
Then two aircraft collided mid-air near Arizona’s Marana Regional Airport on Wednesday. Two people died after one of the planes went up in flames when it hit the ground.
The list of 2025 accidents gets worse – and will likely make anyone already afraid of flying even more scared to step on a plane.
Six people died two days after the Washington DC tragedy when their medical plane plunged onto a residential street in Philadelphia, including a sick child.
Despite the string of high-profile crashes in the US …