Now that, at last, those flying skills are being lost, so the crashes are now increasing.
Excellent point, Capn Bloggs, and that increasing accident rate is evident in that Airbus safety summary linked to by Oggi, a few posts ago.
If that's the conclusion you reached from the Airbus report, I must question your reading comprehension.
"Number of fatal accidents per year statistically decreasing since the 1960s despite rapidly increasing number of flights."
Lets take some numbers from that Airbus Report:
Number of fatal accidents/year:
2000: 10
2001: 9
2002: 8
2003: 7
2004: 4
2005: 9
2006: 7
2007: 8
2008: 8
2009: 8
2010: 8
2011: 5
2012: 4
2013: 6
So, 2013 had the 4th lowest number of fatal crashes in the last 20 years, 2011 had the 3rd lowest, and 2012 tied (with 2004) for the lowest - despite a 40% increase in the number of flights over that time period. Further, every generation of aircraft has had a better accident rate that the preceding generation.
I'm with olesak - now you're just making
up.
BTW, even if you can't be bothered to read that number in the box, just exactly how much brain power does it take to recognize that the pointer on the speed tape and the barber pole are rapidly approaching each other? The PFD on the 777 is nearly twice the size of that on the 767 (64 sq. in. vs. 36 sq. in.) yet so far no ones stuffed a 767 because they couldn't read the airspeed. Asian didn't recognize that their airspeed was decaying dangerously BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T LOOK
