All 80 people aboard the Delta flight from Minneapolis clambered out of the plane, with 21 suffering injuries.

Now, with several highly publicized plane crashes and collisions, many would-be passengers are scared to even board a plane at all. The Washington D.C. plane collision that took the lives of 67 people is hitting so close to home for Massachusetts residents because of the tragic loss of six passengers who were a part of the Skating Club of Boston.

Fatal crashes attract extraordinary attention partly because they are rare. Workers on a lift check the area where the wing of a Japan Airlines jet went into the tail of a Delta Air Lines jet at the south end of a runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Wednesday,

In recent weeks, videos of planes crashing and burning have populated social media and news feeds. Are more plane crashes happening this year?

In February, a single-engine plane crash occurred near Nome, Alaska, leaving 10 people dead. At an Arizona Airport in early February, an airplane owned by Motley Crue singer Vince Neil veered into a jet,