The data displays the countries and regions with the highest number of fatal civil airliner accidents from 1945 through August 16, 2018. At 829, the U.S. is the country with the highest number of fatal civil airliner accidents. According to the source, military accidents, corporate jets, hijackings (and other criminal occurrences) are not included in the statistic.
Plane crashes
As a result of continued annual growth in global air traffic passenger demand - March 2018 saw a year-on-year increase of 10.6% in revenue passenger kilometers on international routes - the number of airplanes that are involved in accidents is on the increase.
