A Delta Air Lines flight flips upside down at a Toronto, Canada, airport on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025

Listening to establishment media, one might think President Trump’s new administration has done a poor job of keeping air travelers safe in America.

Within the last month, media outlets have reported extensively on four aviation crashes and mishaps, most prominently the midair collision in Washington, D.C., that killed 67 Jan. 29.

Last week, a plane landing in Toronto ignited and flipped over on landing. The 80 people onboard survived the crash.

But despite these incidents, the numbers show that air travel continues to be one of the safest modes of transportation.

“The data doesn’t indicate a rise in serious accidents,” aviation expert and professor Chad Kendall told 9news.com. “When we have two high profile accidents like this back-to-back, certainly it could show that it is, but statistically it is not.”

Kendall continued: “When we have accidents like this, we go through a process and we determine what happened and then we make changes. Whether that’s changes to training, technology, procedures, communication. There’s nothing off the table when it comes to safety and making travel safer.”

Recent statistics from the National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, show there may have been a record low number of airplane accidents nationwide in January. If the currently reported numbers stay the same, there were 63 fatal or non-fatal crashes last month, compared to 80 in January 2024 and 89 in 2023.

That’s the lowest number of crashes in a single month since 1982, according to data on the NTSB website. Overall, their data shows a trend of crashes declining over the years.

NTSB data

Last week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reiterated the overall safety of aviation, telling CBS News: “If you get in a plane, if you look at how many people fly, how many flights we have, of course it’s a safe space.”

Duffy remarked that there isn’t a pattern behind the recent incidents, calling them each “very unique.”