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It's an El Al flight, and their entire fleet of 787-9s use RR Trent 1000 engines. I'm exaggerating a bit about my concern. I know the statistics on modern avia

It's an El Al flight, and their entire fleet of 787-9s use RR Trent 1000 engines. I'm exaggerating a bit about my concern. I know the statistics on modern aviation safety, even with Boeing's, uh, recent track record on such things. Frankly, in the grand scheme of things, I'm more concerned about my safety driving in Tel Aviv than I am about my flight getting there ;)

jacquesm 7y ago
It's not the per-passenger-mile safety that you should be concerned with (the ones that are usually trotted out), it is the per-flight safety that you should be concerned with. That's about 15[1]/45000000 for 2018, not sure what the longer term trends are. So your chances of dying due to an airplane crash if the distribution is random is 1 in 3 million give or take. With 'bits falling out of the engine' the distribution is of course no longer random. [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/02/health/plane-crash-deaths-intl/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/02/health/plane-crash-deaths... [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2018/12/28/airline-fatalities-rise-more-than-900-in-2018/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2018/12/28/air... edit: found better figures.