Originally Posted by
tdracer
Further, while they don't talk publicly about it much, the regulators treat cargo operations as more 'expendable' than passenger operations. Examples being the different treatment of Li batteries, and the exemption of cargo aircraft with more than two engines from the requirements of EDTO.
As a result, the fatal accident rate of cargo operations is significantly higher than it is for passenger operations.
I don't argue with your safety statistics but;
I don't like your examples. Association does not equal causation
There are plenty of other contributing factors that might be considered in the actual causal chains,