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I disagree with your contention that the 747 was unreliable, in its first decade of operation it only had 7 hull loss accidents. A comparable number to the DC-1
by Aloha 8y ago
I disagree with your contention that the 747 was unreliable, in its first decade of operation it only had 7 hull loss accidents. A comparable number to the DC-10 or A300 - interestingly enough, much more than the L-1011.
I do agree with you completely about the security theater aspects of the TSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747_hull_losses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747_hull_losses
- gumby 8y agoYes, that was a careless mis editing on my part. Thank you for highlighting it. What I meant to say was that yes, you had more room in a 747, but overall passenger flight safety these days is amazingly high in an absolute sense and a massive improvement over flight safety of the 60s and 70s.