[Dark Knight]

A few years ago I subscribed to Risks email. The safety of different airframes was a constant discussion. They consistantly rated under 25 year old 747's the safest. Safest by number of landing, passenger mile, plane mile, hours of flight, etc.

Anyone know if that is still true?

DK

[sam_paine]

Fatal Event Rates for
Selected Airliner Models

The following airliner models are ranked by the rate of fatal events per million flights. Number of flights are current as of 31 December 2003 for the following models: Airbus, Boeing, BAe 146/RJ100, Concorde, Fokker, and Lockheed. ATR models are current as of 31 August 2003. Bombardier CRJ is current as of 31 August 2004. All other models are estimates.

Fatal Event Rate Per Million Flights

Model	Rate	Flights	FLE*	Events
Airbus A300	0.65	9.26M	5.99	9
Airbus A310	1.29	3.57M	4.62	5
Airbus A320/319/321	0.15	17.64M	2.61	5
ATR 42 and ATR 72	0.26	13.2M	3.40	4
Boeing 727**	0.50	74.50M	37.2	48
Boeing 737-100/200**	0.56	54.14M	30.54	43
Boeing 737-300/400/500	0.24	45.95M	10.99	14
Boeing 737 (all models)	0.41	100.09M	40.66	54
Boeing 747	0.88	15.67M	13.73	28
Boeing 757**	0.40	13.51M	5.4	7
Boeing 767	0.51	10.81M	5.50	6
Boeing 777	0.00	1.0M	0.00	0
Boeing DC9**	0.55	62.5M	34.41	42
Boeing DC10**	0.66	8.98M	5.91	15
Boeing MD11	0.76	1.34M	1.02	3
Boeing MD80/MD90	0.34	21.58M	7.37	12
Bombardier CRJ	0.12	8.11M	1.00	1
BAe146/RJ100	0.61	7.37M	4.49	6
BAe Jetstream	UNK	UNK	6.07	7
Concorde***	11.36	0.09M	1.00	1
Dornier 228	UNK	UNK	6.88	7
Dornier 328	UNK	UNK	0.11	1
Embraer Bandeirante	3.07	7.5M	23.00	28
Embraer Brasilia	0.71	7.4M	5.27	6
Fokker F28	1.69	9.14M	15.45	21
Fokker F70/F100	0.27	6.94M	1.87	4
Lockheed L1011	0.48	5.33M	2.54	5
Saab 340	0.19	11.2M	2.10	3

** No longer in production
*** No longer in commercial service

Fatal events of selected aircraft models
Fatal events and fatal event rates of selected airlines
Accidents by Model
*Details on analysis method