JetBlue safety record
JetBlue has never had a fatal accident — not once in more than twenty-five years of flying. On airlines like JetBlue, the chance of being in a fatal accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight.
No fatal accident for anyone on board, ever in 26 years of flying
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Not a single fatal accident, ever
JetBlue has flown since February 2000 and has never had a fatal accident. It flies Airbus A320-family jets and the smaller Airbus A220 from New York JFK, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Los Angeles and San Juan, and carried about 39 million passengers in 2025.
Its best-known emergency ended with no one hurt. In September 2005 the nose wheels of flight 292 jammed sideways after take-off from Burbank; the crew burned off fuel and landed at Los Angeles on the main wheels, holding the nose up as long as they could. The NTSB traced it to two worn lugs on the nose gear and a quirk in the steering computer, and both were fixed.
In October 2025 an A320 on flight 1230 from Cancun to Newark pitched down suddenly at cruising height in smooth air. The crew diverted to Tampa; 22 people had minor injuries. Airbus then had A320-family jets around the world update a flight-control computer, and the NTSB is still investigating.
JetBlue is an IATA member and is registered with IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA), which every member must pass. Its tie-up with United, announced in 2025, shares bookings and loyalty points; United's flights are United's own and are not counted here.
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How safe is JetBlue?
JetBlue has never had a fatal accident — not once in more than twenty-five years of flying. On airlines like JetBlue, 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 JetBlue'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 JetBlue does.
Has JetBlue ever had a crash?
No. JetBlue has never had a fatal accident. Its best-known emergency, flight 292 in 2005, landed at Los Angeles with the nose wheels turned sideways, and no one was hurt. This counts accidents as investigators define them; it leaves out stowaways, such as the two young people found in a JetBlue jet's wheel well at Fort Lauderdale in January 2025, who had hidden there on an earlier flight.
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.
- JetBlue 10-K 2025 Passengers, fleet, founding
- IATA Membership (IATA members must be IOSA-registered)
- Aviation Safety Network Flight 292 (2005)
- Wikipedia Flight 292 and the NTSB probable cause
- NTSB preliminary report (ENG26LA004) Flight 1230 (2025)
- CBS News January 2025 wheel-well stowaways
- Wikipedia Incident history
- MIT News / Journal of Air Transport Management (Barnett, 2024) risk per flight 2018–2022
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