Airline Pet Incidents

A complete list of all reported incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of a pet during air travel.

Information current as of September 2025.

Delta

Carrier: Delta Air Lines Flight Number: 1584 Date & Time of Incident: 01/12/2016 Type of Incident: Death Description of Animal: Breed: Golden R...

Death Dog ATL Flight 1584

Mar, 2016

January 12, 2016 at 12:00 AM
American Airlines

AMERICAN AIRLINES / December 2015 DOT PET INCIDENT REPORT Carrier and Flight Number American Airlines Flight # 1624 Date and Time of the Incident 1...

Death Snake SFO Flight 1624

Feb, 2016

December 23, 2015 at 10:30 PM
United Airlines

INCIDENT #1: CARRIER: United Airlines ROUTING: UAS302 Sacramento, CA (SMF) to San Francisco, CA (SFO), UA1568 San Francisco, CA (SFO) to Fort Laude...

Death Dog FLL Brachycephalic Flight UAS302

Feb, 2016

December 18, 2015 at 07:12 AM
Delta

Delta Cargo Live Animal Incident Report Date of Incident: December 2015 Location:West Palm Beach, FL (PBI) - Atlanta, GA (ATL)- Salt Lake C UT - On...

Death Dog ONT

Feb, 2016

December 14, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Delta

Delta Cargo Live Animal Incident Report Date of Incident: Location: Routing : ABY - ATL - PIT : Description of Animal: Mini Dalmatian Puppy Descri...

Death Dog PIT Flight 5334

Jan, 2016

November 28, 2015 at 09:44 PM
American Airlines

Carrier and Flight Number American Airlines Flight # 1158 Date and Time of the Incident 20 November 2015 @ 18:53 Description of the Animal, Includi...

Death Dog FLL Flight 1158

Jan, 2016

November 20, 2015 at 06:53 PM
United Airlines

INCIDENT #3: CARRIER: United ROUTING: NH 2158 All Nippon Airways, Okinawa, Japan (OKA), to UA06 Tokyo, Japan (NRT), to Houston, TX (IAH) DATE: Nove...

Death Cat IAH Flight UA06

Jan, 2016

November 15, 2015 at 07:00 AM
United Airlines

INCIDENT #2: CARRIER: United ROUTING: UA0252 Honolulu, HI (HNL) to UA1226 Houston, TX (IAH) to Atlanta, GA (ATL) DATE: November 9, 2015 UA AWB: 016...

Injury Dog IAH Flight UA0252

Jan, 2016

November 09, 2015 at 07:00 AM
Delta

Delta Cargo live Animal Incident Report Date of Incident: November 09 2015 Location: Orlando Florida Ontario, CA (ONT) - Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) -...

Death Dog MCO

Jan, 2016

November 09, 2015 at 04:39 AM
United Airlines

INCIDENT #1: CARRIER: United ROUTING: UA 1045 Caracas, Venezuela (CCS) to UA1711 Houston, TX (IAH) to Orlando, FL (MCO) DATE: November 4, 2015 UA A...

Injury Dog MCO Flight UA 1045

Jan, 2016

November 04, 2015 at 01:45 PM
United Airlines

INCIDENT #1: CARRIER: United Airlines ROUTING: Pittsburgh, OH (PIT) to Chicago, IL (ORD) to San Francisco, CA (SFO) to Incheon, South Korea (ICN) D...

Injury Dog PIT

Dec, 2015

October 20, 2015 at 12:00 PM
Delta

Type: Missing Date of Incident: October 12, 2015 Location: Detroit, Michigan Routing: Detroit, MI (DTW) – Atlanta, GA (ATL) – Columbia, SC (CAE) AW...

Loss Cat DTW Flight DL901

Dec, 2015

October 12, 2015 at 02:30 PM
Hawaiian Air

Date: 10OCT2015 Time: 1:15 p.m. Reporting Station: HNL Flight: HA 3 From: LAX To: HNL Animal Information: Description: Female Bulldog Incident: Upo...

Death Dog HNL Brachycephalic Flight HA3

Dec, 2015

October 10, 2015 at 01:15 PM
United Airlines

INCIDENT #5: CARRIER: United Airlines ROUTING: UA1577 San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU) to Newark, NJ (EWR) DATE: September 28, 2015 UA AWB: 016-4649-902...

Death Dog EWR Brachycephalic Flight UA1577

Nov, 2015

September 28, 2015 at 09:56 PM
Delta

Carrier: Delta Air Lines - Baggage Flight Number: Delta 2839 Date and Time Of Incident 9/28/2015 11:30 Type of Incident: Injury Description of Anim...

Injury Dog MSP Flight DL2839

Nov, 2015

September 28, 2015 at 11:30 AM
Delta

Cargo incident Report Type: Death Date of Incident: September 28, 2015 Location: Atlanta, GA Savannah, GA (SAV) -Atlanta, GA (ATL) - Grand Routing:...

Death Dog ATL Brachycephalic Flight DL2507

Nov, 2015

September 28, 2015 at 08:36 AM
United Airlines

INCIDENT #4: CARRIER: United Airlines ROUTING: UA1534 Detroit, MI (DTW) to UA 0219 Chicago, IL (ORD) to UA0201 Honolulu, HI (HNL) to UA0183 Guam, (...

Death Dog MNL Brachycephalic Flight UA0183

Nov, 2015

September 22, 2015 at 02:17 AM
Delta

Delta Cargo Live Animal Incident Report (Redacted) Cargo Incident Report Type: Injury Date of Incident: September 21, 2015 LOCation: Detroit, MI Wa...

Injury Dog DTW Brachycephalic Flight DL858

Nov, 2015

September 21, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Delta

Cargo Incident Report Type: Death Date of Incident: September 18, 2015 LOCation: Minneapolis, MN Kansas City, KS (MCI) - Minneapolis, MN (MSP) Rout...

Death Dog MSP Flight DL955

Nov, 2015

September 18, 2015 at 08:28 AM
United Airlines

INCIDENT #3: CARRIER: United Airlines ROUTING: UA1525 Los Angeles, CA (LAX) to Baltimore, MD (BWI) DATE: September 11, 2015 UA AWB: 016-4853-8873 A...

Injury Dog BWI Flight UA1525

Nov, 2015

September 11, 2015 at 09:56 AM

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