Ryanair safety record
Ryanair has never had a fatal accident — not once in more than forty years of flying. On airlines like Ryanair, the chance of a passenger dying in an accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight.
For airlines based in Ireland 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.
Not a single fatal accident in more than forty years
Ryanair has flown since 1985 and has never had an accident in which anyone died — across one of the largest airline operations in the world, with more than 200 million passengers a year across the group.
It has lost one aircraft. In 2008 a Boeing 737 going around at Rome Ciampino flew into a huge flock of starlings, lost thrust in both engines and landed hard on the runway; there were only minor injuries. Italy's investigators named the bird strike as the cause, with poor bird control at the airport and a late go-around contributing.
Ryanair-branded flights are also flown by the group's other airlines — Buzz, Malta Air, Ryanair UK and Lauda Europe — and none of them has had a fatal accident either. Lauda Europe is not the old Lauda Air.
Ryanair is not an IATA member and is not registered with IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA). Its airlines are overseen by their national regulators under European (EASA) rules, and Ryanair UK by the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
Nothing to put on the line
Ryanair has had no accident in which anyone died since it began flying.
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Ryanair safety questions
How safe is Ryanair?
Ryanair has never had a fatal accident — not once in more than forty years of flying. On airlines like Ryanair, 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 Ryanair's safety rating?
FlyBud doesn't invent a score. What matters is the record, which you can check: no one on board has died in an accident on a Ryanair flight in its forty-year history. Ryanair is not an IATA member and is not IOSA-registered; its airlines are overseen by their national regulators under European rules, and Ryanair UK by the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
Has Ryanair ever crashed?
Ryanair has never had a crash in which anyone died. One aircraft was written off after a bird strike at Rome Ciampino in 2008, with only minor injuries.
Where these facts come from
Every fact on this page is from official accident reports, the airline's own filings or the published accident record.
- Ryanair results passengers
- Wikipedia founding
- IATA IOSA registration
- The Aviation Herald 2008 Rome Ciampino hull loss
- ANSV (Italian investigators) 2008 Rome Ciampino report
- MIT News / Journal of Air Transport Management (Barnett, 2024) risk per flight 2018–2022
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