Just over 100 days in, 2025 has become the deadliest year for US aviation since 2001 – forever etched in memory by the 9/11 terror attacks.

In January, American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with an army Black Hawk in Washington DC killing all 64 on board, the first major commercial passenger flight to crash in the US in over a decade.

A spate of aviation disasters followed, with a tourist helicopter plummeting into the Hudson river in New York last week, claiming the lives of the six people on board, including three children.

Fear of flying has spiked with 29 per cent of Americans now thinking it is unsafe to travel by plane, according to a recent CBS News/YouGov poll.

Telegraph analysis of Aviation Safety Network (ASN) data reveals such concerns are not entirely unfounded. While the 21 accidents recorded up to April 10 are lower than the 24 recorded by this point last year – the number of aviation fatalities in 2025 exceed that of the past 15 years combined.