Have Boeing fixed the problem they had with engines falling off due to cost cutting in manufactiure and terrible training of their maintainance technicians?Buy and fly Boeing, everybody - the experiment is over.
Yes, of course, ANY problem is quickly solved once the legal department confirms that you'll lose more money in court than you would by making the needed changes.
If you want a good comparison, it should be crashes by type per flight and/or by passengers carried. We'll all "discover" that Airbus AND Boeing are less likely to kill you than are Ford, Fiat or Peugot.
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I remember hearing the statistic that your more likely to be kicked to death by a donkey than die in a plane crash...
Not sure how true it is... especially as more and more people take up air travel but i like to quote it generally to prove a point, usually when im talking to a friend or something that is worried about flying...
The way to do it would be to take the total amount of flights flown by Boeing and Airbus then divide it by amount of crashes and you have a crash per flight ratio...
Of course then you could split it up into the very dangerous crashes (were most or all die) and the not so dangerous were maybe one or two die... or you could skip this and go for a deaths per flight ratio...
Of course for a deaths per flight ratio isn't that great... a few too many variables....
What would be a more effecient score would be deaths per passenger.... add up all the passengers and divide by the number of deaths...
I think both those scores have some validity, one will tell you how often X's planes crash, the other will tell you what the chances are (or were in the last 30 odd years) of dieing whilst flying with X
Of course to make this even better maybe just concentrate on the last 10-20 years, if one company happened to have a bad recored back in the 80's but has since changed this it would be no reason to not fly with them now...
I love statistics!
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All those statistics about low chances of dying in an air crash are true, but first of al, of course, people are not rational, nor do statistics quiet them. Secondly, plane crashes kill people en masse while auto accidents are usually low-casualty due to the limited capacity of an average private vehicle. I do believe that fact increases you chances of dying in an air crash. Although when compared to auto accidents, the rate for air crashes is still laughably small (but still just as tragic).
Anybody have statistics since 1970 on the ratio of aircraft in service to aircraft crashed? Also, ratio of flights to fatalities since 1970? I beleive that these would be more telling.
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Now if we could just figure out when its the low and when its the high then we'll be millionaires!
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