Originally Posted by
tdracer
Pax, you might want to take a gander at this Boeing report:Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents
http://www.boeing.com/resources/boei...df/statsum.pdf
One quite interesting takeaway is that for the ten year period from 2006 to 2015, the rate of fatal and hull loss accidents for scheduled passenger operations was roughly 3 times better (less) than the rate for "all other operations" (which would be primarily freight and charter ops).
So we can debate the reasons why, but it is clear that pure freight operations are more dangerous than scheduled passenger operations.
Again, as you mentioned in a previous post, during this period I would submit that there were more frtr than pax variants flying. Another cause for any difference could include frtr flights operate into many non-radar airports and airports with only non-precision approach facilities whereas pax 747s would nearly always be flying into international airports with radar and precision approaches.
Still, I would hesitate to use the term 'more dangerous'. If crews are properly trained and rested, flying well-maintained aircraft, additional threats should be mitigated. The crew flying the MyCargo/Turkish accident aircraft would have crashed in a Cessna, the 747 had nothing to do with the fact they completely botched the approach and should have gone around much earlier.