[dts32041]

107 missions and two lost ccraft.

any other public paid for conveyance with that miserable of a safety record.

[jude24]

Oh, come on, you can't compare a spacecraft with an airliner! Apples and oranges -- space flight is so much more complicated than airline flight which is more complicated than automobiles which are more complicated than trains which....

[Denver Ditdat]

any other public paid for conveyance with that miserable of a safety record.

The only thing that comes quickly to mind are the Navy dirigibles Akron and Macon. The Akron crashed 4 April 1933 on her 74th flight. The Macon's final flight also ended in a crash on 12 February 1935, on her 54th flight.

The Macon's flight ended the Navy's rigid airship program, though they continued to fly nonrigid blimps until 31 August 1962 with a much better safety record.