Originally Posted by
George Glass
If you look at the stats for the US , Europe, Canada Japan, Australia, New Zealand etc the accident rate for the B737NG is approximately zero.
Let's hand pick our countries shall we ? Including New Zealand, where they gave up the few they had a while back.
In the last two years alone Aug 2018 to Aug 2020 there have been on average three 737-800 aircraft destroyed, departing the runway on landing, PER YEAR. That's one every 18 weeks. I'm not counting any other phase of flight, or things like the Ukrainian shoot-down, or the Max. Let's list them.
Aug 2018. Xiamen at Manila
Sep 2018. UTAir at Sochi
Sep 2018. Air Niugini in New Guinea
May 2019. Miami Air at Jacksonville
Feb 2020. Pegasus at Izmir
Aug 2020. Air India at Kozhikode
If I was an hull loss insurance agent, working on averages, I would be very alerted. It's more than an outlier.