A string of crashes this year has brought attention to air travel, which remains overwhelmingly safe. Here are some of the most recent details.

The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground. One passenger survived.

The crash happened just weeks after the company cut a deal with the U.S. government to avoid taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.

As Muslims from across the world travelled to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage in early June 2025, images of an aircraft in flames were shared on social media alongside claims that a Mauritanian plane carrying pilgrims had crashed,