AIRLINES → RANK #29

Air Canada

STEADY

No passenger fatalities on a mainline Air Canada flight in over four decades.

SOURCE: AVIATION SAFETY NETWORK (COMPILED) — MAINLINE; SEE NOTE · AVIATION SAFETY NETWORK (opens in a new window) · checked 2026-07-09
Years without fatal accident
43 and counting
Last fatal accident
1983
Founded
1937
Fleet size
~190
Home country
Canada
IATA / ICAO
AC / ACA
THE FULL PICTURE

Air Canada Express Flight 8646 — a regional jet operated by Jazz Aviation that struck a fire truck landing at LaGuardia in March 2026, killing both pilots — was a separately-certificated feeder. Same rule as American Eagle: we book it under the operator, and we tell you it happened.

READ THE RECORD → (opens in a new window)
WHY THIS IS REASSURING

At this level of safety, the gap between major airlines is statistically negligible. Flying Air Canada — or any major scheduled carrier — you would need to fly every day for over 25,000 years to statistically expect a fatal accident.

SOURCE: MIT / ARNOLD BARNETT · METHODOLOGY →
WHAT THIS NUMBER DOESN'T TELL YOU

This figure counts years since a fatal accident, not flights — Air Canada has no sourced per-airline flight total, so it can't say how many trips sit behind the record. One airline's own history, however long or short, is a far smaller sample than the worldwide figure this site already publishes: 99.999993% of boardings end safely — 1 death per 13,700,000 boardings, worldwide, 2018–2022 (MIT / ARNOLD BARNETT, 2024).

That's the whole record, checked 2026-07-09. Reading it again tonight won't change what's in it.

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