Summary ASR 2025
The Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) processed roughly 15,000 incident reports in 2025 – significantly more than in previous years, as detailed in the recently published Annual Safety Report. These contribute to the ongoing improvement of safety on the ground and in the air.
Around 17% more incidents reported in commercial aviation and recreational aviation than in the previous year; more scratches on aircraft, and pilots and ground staff making wrong turns on the ground at increasingly complex aerodromes with tighter space constraints; more incorrectly loaded aircraft; more near-misses in the air; more airspace violations due to new airspace structures; more conflicts between aeroplanes, helicopters and drones; more GPS disruptions; more abusive and violent passengers; fewer laser attacks; helicopters still colliding with cables; fewer accidents involving helicopters at work; more reports regarding aircraft airworthiness; no fatal accidents in commercial aviation, four accidents with a total of six fatalities in recreational aviation, one helicopter accident with one fatality and one injury during an agricultural operation. That is a summary of incident statistics in Swiss civil aviation for 2025 in a nutshell.
The FOCA processed a total of 14,972 incident reports in 2025. From the reports received, the FOCA categorises, analyses and identifies the key causes of the incidents for five areas of risk – aerodromes, air traffic management, flight operations, helicopter operations and aviation technology – and assesses them according to their degree of severity.
The safety culture of civil aviation builds on the experience of pilots, air traffic controllers and ground staff. The FOCA derives preventive measures from the safety-relevant incidents reported and draws up recommendations.
The number of incidents reported has been increasing since 2019, mainly because of an improved reporting culture; the growth in commercial air traffic; and an increase in conflict regions where GPS signals are disrupted over large areas in aircraft.
In Swiss airspace, collision avoidance is the top priority. The analysis of incident reports provides important information on the severity and location of the incidents. Together with the Swiss aviation industry and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the FOCA is developing the Future Aviation Surveillance Services and Technologies (FASST-CH). The aim is to introduce modern surveillance technologies so that everyone is visible in the airspace.
The FOCA has been running the ‘Staysafe.aero’ safety campaign for over ten years. The target group: pilots and stakeholders in light aviation. It publishes posts about the latest safety-relevant topics on the campaign website and on social media on a weekly basis.
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