Air Disaster!
Fall 2019
Infographic Poster
Air travel, since its commercial debut in the 1930's, has quickly become one of the most popular forms of mass transit in the United States. But just how safe is it to travel by air in the US? I was interested in seeing what the correlation was between major airline crashes and the amount of time the company had been operating. I've compiled a list of all major crashes from the 5 largest air lines in the United States (while flying domestic) to show how the frequency of crashes by decade.
To show this data I took inspiration from what air travel looks like from the ground. The data is plotted along points that are meant to evoke the contrails that trail behind planes.
Its easy to overcomplicate when working with data sets, for this project I prioritized simplicity. My goal was to tell the story of an increasingly safer form of travel without giving the viewer more than they would need to understand the point I am making.
