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I flew on Spirit recently and noticed before takeoff in the little speech the flight attendants make they mention their “all Airbus fleet”, which honestly made
by wincy 6y ago
I flew on Spirit recently and noticed before takeoff in the little speech the flight attendants make they mention their “all Airbus fleet”, which honestly made me feel better. I don’t want to fly on a Boeing at this point, as I fly so seldom anyway and this has just devastated my opinion of them.
- mannykannot 6y agoThere has been a slow-simmering pop-hypothesis, fueled by a number of accidents such as AF 447, that Airbus' approach to fly-by-wire controls is less intuitive than Boeing's in a crisis. As far as I know, there is no real evidence for this making Airbus planes less safe, but until the 737 Max crashes, I think there was, if anything, a bias against Airbus.
- clZIXvt9Jz 6y agoThis is a quick & dirty statistic that I just made. Incidents listed on Wikipedia excl. hijacking/being shot down where >=20 people perish: year airbus boeing 2000 2 3 2001 1 0 2002 0 4 2003 0 3 2004 0 1 2005 0 6 2006 2 2 2007 1 3 2008 1 2 2009 2 0 2010 2 2 2011 0 2 2012 0 1 2013 0 1 2014 1 1 2015 1 0 2016 1 1 2017 0 1 2018 0 2 2019 0 1 2020* 1 2 I couldn't find any data on the number of journeys per year. The statistic is useless as an indicator of safety as it isn't normalized to either a unit of distance or journey. * To date.