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Same with Airbus. Only their two newest models haven’t crashed yet. (The A380 with very few built and the A350 which is the newest all new airliner.) Their A300, A310, A319/20/21, A330 and A340 models have all crashed.

No B787 has crashed, and the B777 had an exemplary safety record until the Russians shot one down and also some pilots in San Francisco flew it into the rocks short of the runway on manual approach.

As for the B757 model which is the model in the article with the landing gear trouble has a great safety record. There are a number of hull losses due collisions and hijackings, something I don’t think anyone could blame Boeing for.

Two were used during 9/11. Others have been hijacked too. One 757 was lost when a different plane was hijacked and they collided.

Btw the giant A380 has already had an incident so severe that the plane caught on fire in air and lost hydraulics. The landing gears had to be dropped by gravity. Tough bird landed and everyone was safe despite the leaking fuel and overheated brakes from coming in so fast. Could have ended badly.

So yes, both Boeing and Airbus only make two types of planes. Those that have crashed and those that will.