Originally Posted by
futurama
On the contrary, hull loss per (million) departures, grouped by type, is a long standing metric tracked in the industry. In fact Boeing has been updating the above chart every year for at least 20 years!
Only as long as they come at the winning end of it. It is completely meaning less. How do these add in
- military shoot downs
- hijack crashes
- midair collisions caused by the other involved ac
- maintenance losses
As the hull losses - heaven and all hard working people sent - become a scarce occurrence, the outlier events distort any purpose it may have had. And I suggest it never did. It is a
PR stunt for the Instagram generation, oh wait..