In January and February alone, there have been 87 aviation crashes with about 100 fatalities. Some were planes colliding mid-air another flipping upside down the runway while landing and many more. But with Spring Break coming up, students at CHS are traveling to places all around the globe. Students express their thoughts on the recent crashes and their fears on traveling to their destinations.
“I know there was one in Washington D.C., where it collided with a helicopter. Everyone on board actually died, sadly,” freshman Vivian Parker said.
On January 29th, a commercial aircraft crashed into an Army helicopter mid-air and sent both into the Potomac River, killing 67 abroad; being the most deadly plane crash since 2001. This sparks a bit of fear in the students traveling a long distance for Spring Break.
“I’m usually pretty calm. I’m okay with flying overall, but after hearing this, it doesn’t change much either. Airplane crashes are bound to happen one way or another. There’s always going to be dangers,” freshman Anastasia Moser said.
The chances of someone getting into a car accident is 1 in 366 every 1000 miles, compared to an airplane accident; the chances are 1 in 11 million. But about 65% of all plane crashes happened in the US in 2025.
“I heard somewhere like you would have to fly for 11 years every single day to get in a fatal plane crash. Those chances are too low to be that worried,” Parker said.
Even with the increase in the number of accidents early in 2025, the overall safety of air travel remains generally high due to intense safety standards and improvements for aviation technology.
I mean, it doesn’t make me feel good, it makes me feel a little uneasy. But it’s nothing huge,” Parker said.
After the D.C. crash, there were comments by government officials saying that the DEI (an organization that focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion in many different ways), shouldn’t not be able to be employed in the aviation industry, which would be going against the association’s standards. Yet students at CHS feel that their safety is not that affected and are not worried when traveling this Spring Break.
“It makes me feel a little bit apprehensive, but it would never make me not want to fly, necessarily,” Parker said. “I know that there are people in charge that are highly trained and have flown a lot. Flights for me have always gone smoothly,”
