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Old 26th Mar 2018, 13:41
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Originally Posted by abababbbbabab27
Hi all

How to measure the safety and reliability of an aircraft in an engineering perspective? For instance, comparing a new A320 to a 20 years-old A320, how can I tell people that a new A320 is more reliable by not just saying because it is new?

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Maintenance man hours per flying hour and percentage dispatch success are the two obvious statistics I think.

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