Are extra airplanes crashing beneath President Donald Trump than beneath Joe Biden?

America noticed double the variety of deadly airplane crashes beneath President Joe Biden’s first 4 weeks in workplace in comparison with the identical time interval beneath President Donald Trump’s second administration, federal information reviewed by Fox Information Digital reveals. 

There have been 10 deadly airplane crashes in the USA between Jan. 20, 2021, and Feb. 18, 2021, based on the Nationwide Transportation Security Board’s Case Evaluation and Reporting On-line, or CAROL, which has recorded aviation accidents since 1962. There have been 4 deadly airplane crashes recorded throughout the identical time interval beneath the second Trump administration — from inauguration day to Feb. 18 — the information reveals. 

A fifth deadly airplane crash unfolded in Georgia on Saturday night, which has not but been added to the database however is included in Fox Digital’s closing tally of 5 deadly airplane crashes within the U.S. since Jan. 20. 

Although the second Trump administration has seen fewer airplane crashes than the primary month of the Biden administration, the Washington, D.C., crash in January offered better nationwide visibility to concern over aviation crashes because it was the deadliest in U.S. historical past since November 2001, when an American Airways flight crashed right into a residential space of New York Metropolis, killing 260 individuals on board and 5 on the bottom. 

A complete of 67 individuals have been killed in January when an Military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airways passenger airplane collided close to Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport. 

Fox Information Digital discovered that through the Biden administration’s approximate first month in workplace, there have been U.S.-based deadly airplane crashes in Janesville, Wisconsin; St. Thomas, Caribbean Sea; Tehachapi, California; Galt, Missouri; Belvidere, Tennessee; Chitina, Alaska; Hackberry, Louisiana; Port Angeles, Washington; Boynton Seaside, Florida; Rio Rancho, New Mexico. A complete of 18 people died within the 10 crashes. 

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America noticed double the variety of deadly airplane crashes beneath President Joe Biden’s first 4 weeks in workplace in comparison with the identical time interval beneath President Donald Trump’s second administration. (Getty Photos)

The 5 deadly airplane crashes within the first month of the Trump administration occurred in Nome, Alaska; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Covington, Georgia. A complete of 96 individuals died within the airplane crashes. 

When evaluating the 2 Trump administrations, Fox Information Digital discovered there have been 11 recorded deadly airplane crashes between Jan. 20, 2017, to Feb. 18, 2017. 

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Fox Information Digital additionally discovered that the Biden administration noticed seven critical — not deadly — airplane crashes between Jan. 20, 2021, and Feb. 18, 2021, in comparison with six critical airplane crashes beneath the identical time interval for the Trump administration, based on the CAROL database. 

As for crashes that resulted in “minor” accidents for passengers, the CAROL database recorded seven beneath the Biden administration’s first month and two beneath the second Trump administration’s first month, Fox Digital discovered. 

A Delta Air Traces airplane is the wrong way up on its roof after crashing upon touchdown at Toronto Pearson Airport in Toronto on Feb. 17, 2025. (Geoff Robins/AFP through Getty Photos)

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One other airplane crash unfolded on Monday in Canada, when a Delta Air Traces CRJ-900 jet originating from Minnesota crashed at Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport. Not one of the 80 passengers or crew have been killed, however at the very least 18 have been handled for accidents after the airplane crashed, caught on fireplace and flipped the wrong way up.  

The Toronto crash unfolded as information mounted that the Trump administration is within the midst of firing a bevy of federal workers throughout varied businesses as a part of his administration’s effort to chop authorities spending fats and weed out corruption and mismanagement, together with terminating Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) workers who’ve been employed up to now yr, based on a union representing the staff. 

President Donald Trump listens as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks on the White Home on Jan. 30, 2025. (Alex Brandon/Related Press)

A spokesperson for the U.S. Division of Transportation advised Fox Information Digital Monday that the company continues to rent air visitors controllers and people targeted on air security. 

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“The FAA continues to rent and onboard air visitors controllers and security professionals, together with mechanics and others who assist them,” the spokesperson advised Fox Information Digital. “The company has retained workers who carry out security crucial features.” 

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy added on X that his predecessor, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, had “failed for 4 years to handle the air visitors controller scarcity and improve our outdated, World Battle II-era air visitors management system.”

A police boat patrols the water and guards the crash scene on Jan. 30, 2025, after an American Airways airplane collided midair with a navy helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu through Getty Photos)

“Right here’s the reality: the FAA alone has a staggering 45,000 workers,” he stated. “Lower than 400 have been let go, and so they have been all probationary, that means that they had been employed lower than a yr in the past. Zero air visitors controllers and important security personnel have been let go.” 

The crash, nonetheless, has opened the floodgates of criticism from Democrats and liberal media retailers who’ve laid blame for the crash at Trump’s ft. 

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“I’m grateful that everybody within the flight incident in Toronto that took off from Minneapolis is protected, however we preserve seeing these incidents day after day,” Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer posted to X after the Monday crash. “In the meantime, Trump’s doing huge layoffs on the FAA—together with security specialists—and making our skies much less and fewer protected. Democrats are combating to guard the flying public.”