Monday, the Delta Air Lines at Toronto Pearson International Airport is the last in a series of accidents this year which has spread anxiety among air travelers and caused strong criticism of American aviation regulators .
Here are the three main American accidents so far in 2025:
American Airlines Jet and Army Helicopter Collide
On the night of January 29, an American Airlines plane approached the Reagan national airport in Washington when he collided with an army helicopter who was on a training mission.
The collision sparked a fireball and sent both planes and 67 people – 64 on the Bombardier CRJ700 and three on the Black Hawk UH -60 helicopter – crashing into the Potomac river. There were no survivors.
It was the most deadly air accident in the United States in 20 years. The next day, questions emerged on the flight trajectories of the helicopter and the plane, and if the national traffic control staff of Reagan National contributed to the collision. An investigation is underway.
A medical jet descends to Philadelphia
A small medical plane struck the ground in the northeast of Philadelphia a minute after taking off on January 31, bursting out the fire and swallowing up houses and vehicles in flames. The six people on board and a person on the ground were killed, the authorities said.
Learjet 55 was carrying a child who had finished treatment in Philadelphia at his home in Mexico. She was accompanied by her mother, and there were also two pilots, a doctor and a paramedic on board, according to Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, who operated the plane.
The regional plan crashes in distant Alaska
A small passenger plane carrying 10 people disappeared on February 6 while he was flying for Nome, in Alaska. His disappearance triggered a massive research operation, with planes of the Coast Guard and the Air Force scanning a distant area along the west coast of Alaska.
The Cessna 208 caravan was operated by Bering Air, a regional airline. Its wreckage, with the bodies of the pilot and nine passengers, was found the next day.
Before crashing, his pilot said to the air traffic control that he intended to grasp a maintenance model while waiting for the track to Nome was erased, according to Nome’s fire service. But the Alaska Transport Department said that the track that the plane approached had remained open throughout this day.
