With seven runway incursions of United States commercial aircraft during January and February, the first two months of 2023 saw the highest rate of such incidents in five years. 2018 to 2022 combined had 23 comparable incidents, 5 of which occurred in 2022. The events prompted a review by the Federal Aviation Administration, announced by acting administrator Billy Nolen on February 28, 2023. The review started on March 15. For the first time in 14 years, U.S. aviation industry leaders met the same day at a safety summit.
An August 2023 report in The New York Times found that 46 close calls had occurred involving commercial airliners in the previous month. In one instance, two consecutive aircraft taking off from San Francisco International Airport nearly hit a Frontier Airlines plane whose nose had intruded onto the runway, each only missing by a small margin that an internal FAA report called "skin to skin". The New York Times investigation attributed the increase in incidents in large part to a shortage in air traffic controller staffing, with overworked controllers making more errors.
On January 29, 2025, approximately two years after these incidents became a more frequent issue, the deadliest commercial aviation disaster in more than a decade occurred between an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter.
The list below includes all newsworthy near miss incidents at U.S. airports since 2023: