Originally Posted by Big Pistons Forever
It is also a fact that the North American accident rate for mainline jets has been lower than European operators for at least the last 30 years and the gap appears to be widening.
I don't think that's the case at all. If it is even true, the difference is not statistically significant as far as I know (see below).
Arnold Barnett of MIT Sloan School of Management has been studying global airline accident rates for decades and no such conclusion lies in the work of his that I have read. I haven't read his latest yet, which may be found
at this place in the WWW site of the journal Transportation Science, but for which one has to pay.
PBL