Delta plane crashes in Toronto
(www.ctvnews.ca)
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There's been quite a few more than that, but besides those big fatality events I'm not convinced it's anything more than "shark attacks on the rise" media coverage.
It seems unusual to have that many commercial flight crashes. With 5 so far this year we are on track for 24 by year's end, which would be a statistically significant deviation from the last 6 years. The AA/Blackhawk collision was the first major commercial loss of life since 2011.
Incidentally 2024's number of 18 crashes is also statistically significant.
First major commercial loss of life in the US since 2011, you mean. There have been crashes by other countries. Pretty sure a few asian airlines have gone down since, I think a passenger plane was shot down over Ukraine too.
I disagree. Last year there has been a couple crashes but nothing to something like this catastrophic.
However, last year there were a LOT of near-misses and planes clipping each other... so these crashes is obviously the end result of the misses.