Originally Posted by
rudderrudderrat
The problem with the AirDisaster stats is that Chris Kilroy is a known Boeing partisan, and revealed some very negative opinions of Europeans and the French in particular in 2001.
Besides that, those figures don't take into account the longevity of each airframe, and the fact that a lot of accidents in new types will occur in the first 5 years of service. Once an aircraft has plugged the line for a while, its "quirks" are known by the piloting communities and they cease to be as much of an issue. It would only be fair to either compare the first decade of service of each, or discount the first 5 years as a statistical anomaly and take the stats from there. Either way it skews the stats in favour of aircraft that have been around for longer.