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The denominator is "passenger mile", those don't have passengers. Would be interesting to look into whether cargo flights have higher accident rate than passeng
by HPsquared 2y ago
The denominator is "passenger mile", those don't have passengers.
Would be interesting to look into whether cargo flights have higher accident rate than passenger flights.
- sokoloff 2y agoIf you include all the feeder aircraft routes (lots of single-engine Grand Caravans and the like), it’s much, much worse than US airline passenger flights. Reasons include a mix of equipment, flying on the wrong side of the clock (often by low-time pilots with other jobs), lots of single pilot ops, driving for the lowest possible cost and highest dispatch rate, less oversight (and a little bit more cowboy as a result), and lots of short legs to airports with shorter runways, fewer runways, and often less services (snow removal, ATC, de-icing, etc.)
- sofixa 2y agoYes, but this is from the introduction of the article. It isn't until the 6th paragraph of the article, after the part I quoted in the 5th one, that they mention anything about passengers. Before that it's all about "(air)plane crashes" and "US airlines", no mention of passengers at all.