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Air India

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One of Asia’s oldest carriers. Flight AI171 — a 787 lost at Ahmedabad in June 2025, killing 241 of the 242 aboard — was its first fatal accident in decades, and the reason this page will never tell you any airline is beyond risk.

SOURCE: ASN — AI171, AHMEDABAD (2025) · AVIATION SAFETY NETWORK (opens in a new window) · checked 2026-07-09
Years without fatal accident
1 and counting
Last fatal accident
2025
Founded
1932
Fleet size
~208
Home country
India
IATA / ICAO
AI / AIC
WHY THIS IS REASSURING

At this level of safety, the gap between major airlines is statistically negligible. Flying Air India — 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 India 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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