As compared to what?
To: Covenant
Statistics can be bent in any direction depending on the point being made. What you have to do is compare the number of flight hours on a specific aircraft series and measure the MTBC (Mean time Between Crashes) or MTBF (Mean Time Between Fatalities) as guaranteed by the manufacturer in order to gain certification.
The FAA has a safety requirement that states that a system failure that is catastrophic and results in death of one or more passengers or crew can occur no more frequently that 1 10 9 or one time in a billion hours. The safety engineers at the airframe manufacturers can by the use of Boolean algebra show that a system failure that results in a single death will occur no more frequently than 1 10 12 all the way up to 1 10 17. This is a total sham and no system in the world can actually meet those figures. In fact there is no system that can meet the 1 10 9. The figures quoted are for the total flight hours for a fleet of the same type of aircraft. Some aircraft can’t even reach a total of a million hours before a fatal accident caused by system failure. Case in point is the 737, which had at least six or seven major rudder incidents and three fatal crashes for the same reason.
The airlines also perpetrate a sham on the flying public by tying their safety record to passenger seat miles. An airline can show that they have generated multi millions of passenger seat miles since their last accident and don’t tell the public that they may have only flown 20-25,000 total hours to generate the number of passenger seat miles quoted in their advertisements. The FAA requirement of catastrophic system failure rate of 1 10 9 is yet to be met on any aircraft presently flying any other types no longer in service.
When it comes to hours just think of this to put it in perspective. Jesus Christ was born about 17,537,520 hours ago.
Liars’ figure and figures lie.