Originally Posted by
Nubian
AnFI,
Without more info on the numbers, you don't have a case.
Can you from your numbers above, perhaps tell us the number of flight hours generated for twins and for singles, so we can divide the dead per hour? You can keep it for the UK for now, and we get the numbers world wide later.
Maybe you can give us a list of controlled in flight engine shut-downs (twin), due to some sort of problems, where the result was return to base, land and do some extra paperwork vs. Single engine failure, forced landing/crash and even more paperwork done by someone else?! Also per flight hours? The UK would do for now.
Preferably, split into private/corporate non AOC work vs. commercial operation.
Numbers are easy to manipulate to support any agenda, even a poorly thought out one.
Without background data such as the amount of missions or hours flown, or even the number of accidents avoided, numbers on their own are meaningless.
The heavier category aircraft have all had a larger crew count, thus more fatalities, which has been used to imply the aircraft are less safe, which is creative mathematics in action.
Including Clutha in the calculation is just plain old fashioned scumminess.
With the backwards logic demonstrated, you would have to conclude that airline travel is incredibly unsafe - just look at the fatalities each year.
In Anfi's world that probably makes sense since those poor buggars are stuck with up to 4 engines, that's more than double the danger of any twin.