Originally Posted by
TangoAlphad
It is more complicated than that. How may of those ATR accidents came down to pilot error or being operated in inherently more dangerous areas? If you look at Saabs that have a serious failure leading to a loss of life vs ATR etc and came up with those numbers you can maybe have an argument to say they aren't as safe but there are a lot of cowboy outfits in ATR's that could really skew that number.
I found where I got it from, maybe I'm reading it incorrectly. There was a problem with icing on the ATR's in the earlier models. If you click on the FLE link it makes you to another page.
http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm