ACCIDENT COUNTS CANNOT BE USED ALONE
During the 109 complete months from August 2016 through August 2025, the combined dataset records 1,269 commercial aviation accidents in Canada and the United States. Of these, 625 occurred in Canada and 644 occurred in the United States. This represents a remarkably even geographical distribution: approximately 49.3 percent occurred in Canada and 50.7 percent in the United States. The combined average was approximately 11.6 commercial accidents per month. These figures should not be interpreted as accident rates because the workbook does not contain exposure data such as departures, flight hours, passenger miles, aircraft movements, or commercial fleet utilization. They measure occurrence frequency only. Commercial aviation represented approximately 9.8 percent of the 12,965 total aviation accidents recorded across the combined dataset during these 109 months. General aviation therefore accounts for the substantially larger portion of accident frequency. However, commercial aviation r...