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To: 2111USMC
Thanks, just what I suspected. If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going .
19 posted on 06/29/2009 6:08:31 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

Y’all oughta look at the stats before jumping around like you do.

According to airdisaster.com, Airbus incidents breakdown like this:

A300 11 since 1983 rollout
A310 7 since 1992 rollout
A320 10 since 1988 rollout
A330 3 since 1994 rollout
A340 2 since 1972 rollout

This is a total of 33 incidents in 26 years of operation - approximately 1.27 per year.

If you look at just the Boeing 737 by itself, there have been 84 incidents since it’s rollout in 1972, for an average of 2.27 per year.

If you add all of the modern Boeing fleet up, it looks like this:

737 84 since 1972 rollout
747 35 since 1974 rollout
757 9 since 1990 rollout
767 9 since 1983 rollout

This is a total of 137 incidents in 37 years of operation - approximately 3.7 per year. (Two should actually be removed from the 757 as those represent the 9-11 hijackings - and to be fair, there are a couple of other incidents on both sides that were related to hijacking, though the averages would still be about the same).

So, how does that slogan go again?

If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going?

I doesn’t matter one way or the other. I take a much bigger risk in the long-haul riding my bike during my workouts - or even simply driving my car to the supermarket.


92 posted on 06/30/2009 10:06:26 AM PDT by Magnatron
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