Ireland105
Re your post #89, let me paint that picture. Page 21 of Boeing's "Statistical Summary of Commercial Airplane Accidents, Worldwide Operations 1959-2009" shows a bar chart comparing the hull loss accident rate per million departures. For the 4 aeroplanes you mention, the figures are as follows:
MD11 3.42
A340 0.95
A330 0.27
B777 0.21.
SFS