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How precisely does one measure something that having not occurred deems an airline 'safe'?
Quite. I once worked for an (UK) airline that did virtually no maintenance whatsoever, 4/5 of the fleet were unfit to fly in IFR, no defects allowed in the tech log, expectation to bust minima routinely...
Astonishingly they only had one accident (and naturally failed to report it) but despite a public 100% safety record they were the most dangerous outfit imaginable.