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What are people going to fly instead? The regular 737? Have you seen the list of how many 737 crashes there have been? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acc

What are people going to fly instead? The regular 737? Have you seen the list of how many 737 crashes there have been? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident... Or maybe A320 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Airbus_A320_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

srj 6y ago
You need to consider accidents as a rate over miles flown.
- ravenstine 6y ago
  And also country of origin. If you look at that list, there are WAY more accidents in non-US and non-EU countries. The same is true of commercial air accidents in recent history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident... If anything, this demonstrates that air travel is unreasonably safe given the number of flights and amount of miles traveled.
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solids 6y ago
You need to exclude from that list accidents like GOL 1907, that had nothing to do with the aircraft.
_zachs 6y ago
> Through 2015, the Airbus A320 family has experienced 0.12 fatal hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs, and 0.26 total hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs; one of the lowest fatality rates of any airliner.[3]
paganel 6y ago
I’d take an A320 over a 737 every day, the latter seems so cramped and a little older, to be honest. Or maybe me only experiencing them on Ryanair made me think that way.
- Schiendelman 6y ago
  Both have many variants and many ages. It’s just Ryanair.
robjan 6y ago
See the hull loss per million. Using that metric you are 34 times more likely to experience a hull loss incident on a 737 MAX than a 320 http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
- gsnedders 6y ago
  If you looked at the crash rates of the A320 after two years of commercial service, it wouldn't have been so great either, with AF296 and IC605 having both occurred. (Though, to be fair, both were pilot error… but both 737 MAX crashes were initially reported as such too.)

srj 6y ago

You need to consider accidents as a rate over miles flown.

ravenstine 6y ago
And also country of origin. If you look at that list, there are WAY more accidents in non-US and non-EU countries. The same is true of commercial air accidents in recent history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident... If anything, this demonstrates that air travel is unreasonably safe given the number of flights and amount of miles traveled.

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solids 6y ago

You need to exclude from that list accidents like GOL 1907, that had nothing to do with the aircraft.

_zachs 6y ago

> Through 2015, the Airbus A320 family has experienced 0.12 fatal hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs, and 0.26 total hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs; one of the lowest fatality rates of any airliner.[3]

paganel 6y ago

I’d take an A320 over a 737 every day, the latter seems so cramped and a little older, to be honest. Or maybe me only experiencing them on Ryanair made me think that way.

Schiendelman 6y ago
Both have many variants and many ages. It’s just Ryanair.

robjan 6y ago

See the hull loss per million. Using that metric you are 34 times more likely to experience a hull loss incident on a 737 MAX than a 320 http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm

gsnedders 6y ago
If you looked at the crash rates of the A320 after two years of commercial service, it wouldn't have been so great either, with AF296 and IC605 having both occurred. (Though, to be fair, both were pilot error… but both 737 MAX crashes were initially reported as such too.)