Dysag
Ok, lets remember some numbers.
I going to take the first 20 years of service of the B737-100/200 and the B727-200.
The B737-100/200 suffered 39 hull losses in 20 years. From the 1968 to 1988, 4 of the were hijacks, 2 in flight bombings, 1 attacked on the ground.
B727-200 suffered 23 hull losses in 20 years, from 1970 to 1990.
This two models are 2º generation aircraft. The B727-200 has almost the same rate of the A320.
To compare with a 3º generation aircraft, I going to pick the B737-300/400/500
It suffered 15 hull losses from 1985 to 2005, now a rate lower than the A320, and this plane is one generation older.
I can also take the B757 but better not to compare.
And if I pick a 4º generation aircraft like B737NG to match the A320, the result is 3 hull loss in ten years. The A320 doubled that number in the same service period.
A study of the Gale Group in the year 2000, said:
Fatal accidents by 1 million departures.
A320.................... 0,53
B737-100/200.........0,73
B737-300/400/500...0,33
All B737(except NG).0,58
Almost the same rate of older aircraft. What a technology breakthrough!
Another 4º Generation like 717 has 0 hull losses.
Airbus investement in marketing is paying it´s results, everybody feels unable to say something bad about the aircraft, but sorry, I dont get it.
This plane is not better that some models of the 60s. In some ways, to go to places like Toncontin is worst.