8,132 accidents and incidents are recorded in California (1982–2026), with 3,344 people killed and 1,514 seriously injured. 22% of the accidents were fatal.
Landing is the most common phase of flight (31% of accidents with a recorded phase), but 2% of those were fatal. Maneuvering accidents were fatal 40% of the time.
General aviation accounts for 88% of these accidents and 88% of deaths. Airline flights account for 2% of accidents.
Among accidents with a coded cause, Aircraft or equipment was the main factor in 53%, followed by pilot or crew (41%).
Recorded accidents went from 250 in 1982 to 91 in 2025.
These are counts of recorded accidents, not risk rates: the data has no flight hours, so a place or aircraft near the top mostly reflects how much flying happens there. Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain), plus notable international accidents from Wikidata and Wikipedia. US-heavy; the NTSB only codes phase and cause for accidents from 2008 on, so those tables leave out earlier years.
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