{
  "dataset_name": "Airplane Crashes and Fatalities Since 1908",
  "description": "Historical record of airplane crashes and fatalities worldwide from 1908 (first recorded airplane fatality) to 2009",
  "last_updated": "2026-01-21",
  "source": "Kaggle (saurograndi/airplane-crashes-since-1908)",
  "source_url": "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/saurograndi/airplane-crashes-since-1908",
  "license": "CC0: Public Domain",
  "record_count": 5268,
  "file_format": "CSV",
  "file_size_mb": 1.5,
  "date_range": "1908-09-17 to 2009",
  "fields": {
    "Date": "Date of crash (MM/DD/YYYY format)",
    "Time": "Local time of crash (HH:MM format)",
    "Location": "Location description (city, state/region, country)",
    "Operator": "Airline or military operator",
    "Flight #": "Flight number if applicable",
    "Route": "Flight route",
    "Type": "Aircraft type/model",
    "Registration": "Aircraft registration number",
    "cn/In": "Construction/serial number",
    "Aboard": "Number of people aboard",
    "Fatalities": "Number of fatalities",
    "Ground": "Number of ground casualties",
    "Summary": "Narrative description of the incident"
  },
  "notable_records": {
    "first_fatality": "1908-09-17 - Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge, passenger in Wright Flyer III flown by Orville Wright",
    "largest_single_aircraft": "1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 - 520 fatalities"
  },
  "visualization_suggestions": [
    "Timeline of aviation safety improvements",
    "Fatalities by decade/year",
    "Geographic distribution of crashes",
    "Operator/airline safety comparison",
    "Aircraft type vulnerability analysis"
  ]
}