SWISS safety record
No passenger has ever died in an accident on a SWISS flight; in December 2024 a cabin crew member died after an engine failure and smoke on board, the only accident death in its history. On airlines like SWISS, the chance of a passenger dying in an accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight.
For airlines based in Switzerland 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.
No passenger has ever died in an accident on a SWISS flight
On 23 December 2024 an A220 flying from Bucharest to Zurich had an engine failure at cruising altitude and smoke in the cabin. It landed at Graz and everyone was evacuated; one of the cabin crew died in hospital a week later. Switzerland's safety investigators took the investigation over from Austria's in May 2025, and their final report is due by the end of 2026.
It is the only fatal event on a SWISS flight since the brand began in 2002. SWISS is legally Crossair, renamed and rebuilt from Crossair and Swissair's flying after Swissair collapsed; Crossair itself had two fatal accidents near Zurich in the two years before, in 2000 and 2001, and they are shown apart on the line below.
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. Deaths that investigators don't class as accidents (such as trespassers) aren't shown.
- Dec 2024 LX1885 · Airbus A220-300 · GrazAn engine failed at cruising altitude and smoke entered the cabin; the aircraft landed at Graz and was evacuated, and a cabin crew member died a week later. Switzerland's SUST leads the investigation, taken over from Austria's in May 2025; its final report is due by the end of 2026.
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SWISS safety questions
How safe is SWISS?
No passenger has ever died in an accident on a SWISS flight; in December 2024 a cabin crew member died after an engine failure and smoke on board, the only accident death in its history. On airlines like SWISS, 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 SWISS's safety rating?
FlyBud doesn't invent a score. What matters is the record, which you can check: no passenger has ever died in an accident on a SWISS flight. It is registered with IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA), which registered airlines must renew every two years.
Has SWISS ever crashed?
No SWISS aircraft has crashed with loss of life. The only fatal event on a SWISS flight is the December 2024 engine failure and smoke on board, after which a cabin crew member died. Crossair, the company SWISS was renamed from, had two fatal crashes near Zurich in 2000 and 2001.
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.
- Austrian safety investigation authority accident history
- Lufthansa Group annual report passengers
- Wikipedia fleet
- IATA IOSA registration
- IATA IOSA registry IOSA registration (read 30 Sep 2026)
- Aviation Safety Network Crossair 498
- Aviation Safety Network Crossair 3597
- SUST LX1885 investigation
- MIT News / Journal of Air Transport Management (Barnett, 2024) risk per flight 2018–2022
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