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EVA Air safety record

EVA Air has never had a fatal accident, and has never lost an aircraft, in more than thirty years of flying. On airlines like EVA Air, the chance of being in a fatal accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight.

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No fatal accident for anyone on board, ever in 35 years of flying

1 in 80 millionodds of a fatal accident, per flight
219,000 yearsof flying every day, on average, before a fatal accident
For airlines based in Taiwan and the other countries in the same safety group, 2018–2022 (MIT study).
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Not a single fatal accident, ever

Since its first flights in July 1991, no EVA Air flight has had a fatal accident, and none of its aircraft has been written off. It flies long-haul Boeing 777s and 787s and Airbus A330s and A321s from its hub at Taipei Taoyuan, so that record covers a great many long flights across the Pacific and to Europe.

Its file holds the ordinary events every large airline has. In 2001 an MD-11 was damaged in a hard landing at Taipei; no one was hurt, the aircraft was repaired, and Taiwan's investigators asked EVA to sharpen its landing training. In 2023 a Thai Airways A330 hit a waiting EVA aircraft while taxiing at Tokyo Haneda, and an EVA 777 being pushed back at San Francisco struck the tail of a parked Delta jet. None was a fatal accident.

Its sister airline UNI Air, which flies domestic and regional routes under its own name and flight numbers, had one fatal accident: in August 1999 gasoline a passenger had carried on board in bleach bottles exploded in an overhead bin as an MD-90 landed at Hualien, and one person lost their life. Because UNI Air doesn't fly under the EVA Air name, it isn't counted here.

since 1970

Every fatal accident, on one line

Solid dots are its own flights; hollow ones were flown by a partner or subsidiary under its name; grey rings are hijackings and attacks. Fatalities that investigators don't class as accidents (such as trespassers) aren't shown.

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Its own flights
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EVA Air in numbers

Founded
1989
Country
Taiwan
Alliance
Star Alliance
Main hubs
Taipei Taoyuan
Passengers a year
13.3 M 2025
Fleet
87 as of Dec 2025
IATA safety audit (IOSA)
Registered
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EVA Air safety questions

How safe is EVA Air?

EVA Air has never had a fatal accident, and has never lost an aircraft, in more than thirty years of flying. On airlines like EVA Air, the chance of being in a fatal accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight. Every fact on this page is sourced — the list is at the bottom.

What is EVA Air's safety rating?

There is no single official safety rating for airlines; the scores some websites publish are their own formulas. What can be checked is the record: no fatal accident and no aircraft written off since its first flights in 1991. It is a member of IATA, the airlines' trade body, which requires its members to pass IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA).

Has EVA Air ever crashed?

No. No EVA Air flight has crashed, and none has had a fatal accident. Its sister airline UNI Air, which flies under its own name, had a fatal fire on landing at Hualien in 1999, caused by gasoline a passenger had carried on board.

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Where these facts come from

Every fact on this page comes from official accident reports, the airline's own figures or the published accident record.

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