[ixs]

Southwest 1380 would like a word with you.

Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a Boeing 737-700 that experienced an uncontained engine failure[a] in the left CFM56-7B engine after departing from New York–LaGuardia Airport en route to Dallas Love Field on April 17, 2018. […] One passenger was partially ejected from the aircraft and sustained fatal injuries[…]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_13...

[vladms]

Based on this https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-ca... between 2009 and 2021 there were indeed 2. I think that the point stands, it is very impressive and safe.

[bmitc]

Wikipedia says 51.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_...

The numbers would go up quite a bit if it included private and military. The numbers you linked to seem to have a very tight definition of which flights were considered, as the Wikipedia list showcases several more in-flight deaths involving air carrier class airplanes than just two.

[nodamage]

I don't understand how you arrived at the number 51. Did you just tally up all the incidents in that list that occurred after 2009?

That list includes a bunch of incidents that are not really relevant for assessing risk level when flying on a commercial airline:

- Someone committing suicide by getting sucked into a plane engine while the plane was on the ground.

- Someone sneaking onto a runway and getting struck by a plane that was landing.

- Another person stealing a plane and intentionally crashing it into the ground.

- The Kobe Bryant helicopter crash.

Looking through the list I would conclude the parent comment was correct. The only incidents with passenger fatalities on US airlines since 2009 were Southwest 1380 and PenAir 3296.

[bmitc]

It's definitely more than two.

[nodamage]

Can you specify which other incidents on that list you think are relevant?