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Old 30th May 2010, 22:01
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atpcliff
 
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Hi!

ALL large commercial aircraft have about the same accident rate, except for two aircraft.

The 737, 747, 757, DC-9 MD-whatever, Airbus 310, 320, 330, 340, DC-10, L-1011, etc., etc. have all about the same accident rate.

The Concorde is by far the worst, but that is not indicative of the Concorde's design: It is because they had the one crash when they ran over the CAL aircraft part that fell off the CAL plane onto the runway. Because there were so few Concourde's, the one crash skewed the accident statistics tremendously.

Then, we come to the 2nd plane that has the higher accident rate.

The MD-11's accident rate is SEVEN TIMES higher than the rest.

Question answered.

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