Boeing vs Airbus accident rates

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This somewhat viral chart (on the left) was posted in another thread which I don't want to derail, so I want to address it here. There's an article debunking it here https://weekly.visualapproach.io/p/d...eing-is-unsafe, but in summary, it's made on a few statistical errors, which, after fixing, end up with the chart on the right. Summary of the major ones:

- It's only from NTSB data, which includes all incidents in Boeing-dominated USA (including minor ones like a FA spilling a hot liquid) only major accidents in Airbus-dominated Europe, involving a US-registered aircraft

- Includes incidents of all Boeing-manufactured aircraft like the Stearman, B-17, 707 etc. which are not what someone is after in comparing A vs B airliners

- Once the scope is limited to the USA, to eliminate the first error above, now there are are far more Boeing flights than Airbus, in raw numbers, which means you'd expect far more Boeing incidents if both are equally safe... the original article, gobsmackingly, used raw numbers not normalized for number of flights. This has been corrected.