Originally Posted by oblivia
It's definitely true that there have been more cargo hull losses recently with 747s, but also true that few have been caused purely by pilot error. They're just old planes that are increasingly moving from passenger operations to cargo.
With respect, the only "old" and "converted" cargo plane to crash in the last 7 years was the National Air Cargo crash in Bagram. The UPS & Asiana crashes were purpose-built freighters with an age of only 2 & 5 years respectively.