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Finnair safety record

Finnair hasn't had a fatal accident since 1963 — more than sixty years. On airlines like Finnair, the chance of a passenger dying in an accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight.

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No one on board has died in an accident since 1963
Chance of dying in an accident, per flight1 in 80 million

For airlines based in Finland and the other countries in the same safety group, 2018–2022 (MIT study).

Put another way: if you took a flight every single day, you would, on average, fly for about 219,000 years before a fatal accident happened to you.

the record

More than sixty years without a fatal accident

Finnair's last fatal accident was on 8 November 1963, when a DC-3 of Aero O/Y, as the airline was then called, crashed near Mariehamn in the Åland Islands, killing 22 people. Its earlier fatal accidents were between the 1920s and 1961, one of them an aircraft shot down by Soviet bombers in 1940.

No one has died in an accident on a Finnair flight since, including the ATR and Embraer flights run for Finnair by Nordic Regional Airlines. Finnair flies from Helsinki and is registered with IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA).

since 1970

Nothing to put on the line

Every fatal accident since 1970 would be a dot on this line. Finnair has none: its last fatal accident was in 1963.

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Finnair in numbers

Founded
1923
Country
Finland
Alliance
oneworld
Main hubs
Helsinki
IATA safety audit (IOSA)
Registered
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Finnair safety questions

How safe is Finnair?

Finnair hasn't had a fatal accident since 1963 — more than sixty years. On airlines like Finnair, the chance of a passenger dying in an accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight. Every fact on this page is sourced — the list is at the bottom.

What is Finnair's safety rating?

FlyBud doesn't give airlines a made-up score. What can be checked is the record on this page and whether the airline passes IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA), which Finnair does.

Has Finnair ever had a crash?

Not for more than sixty years. Its last fatal accident was a DC-3 near Mariehamn in 1963, when the airline was still called Aero O/Y.

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Where these facts come from

Every fact on this page is from the airline's own filings, the official accident investigation or the published accident record.

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