Safest Airliners & Airline Safety
Safest Airliners & Airline Safety
How safe is flying? Recent stats show that only one flight in 8,000,000 crashes. Still, no matter how safe flying may be statistically, it feels the same emotionally. How can we change how flying feels? How can we stop the high anxiety? And what about panic? Feelings are caused by the release of stress hormones. SOAR trains your mind to not react to flying, to not release stress hormones. High anxiety and panic end when the release of stress hormones is controlled.
Safest Airliners at a glance:
Airbus 340
Boeing 777
Boeing 747
Boeing 737 NG
Boeing 767
Airbus 320
Boeing 757
Airbus 330
Boeing 737 CFMI
McDonnell-Douglas MD-11
McDonnell-Douglas DC-10
McDonnell-Douglas MD-80
Boeing 727
Tupelov Tu-134
Douglas DC-9
Airbus 310
Tupelov Tu-154
Ilyushin IL-76
737-200 with JT8D engines
Quick Facts
The Top 3 safest Airliners:
Airbus 340
Boeing 777
Boeing 747
The Bottom 3 safest Airliners (of 20):
Tupelov Tu-154
Ilyushin IL-76
Boeing 737-200
Also in this section:
Airbus 340
1. Airbus 340
The A340 has approximately the same number of flying hours as the 777 and remains accident-free, making it number one is safety.
Number in service: 355
Boeing 777
2. Boeing 777
At one accident per eighteen-million hours of flying, the Triple-Seven is number two in safety. And, in that one accident, everyone survived.
Number in service: 792
Boeing 747
3. Boeing 747
When Boeing first considered building a plane that would carry 500 passengers, the board of directors was skeptical. People had gotten used to hearing of an air crash with one-hundred or so fatalities. So, the thinking was, if Boeing invested all its resources in a 500-passenger plane a crash could so traumatize the public that passengers would refuse to fly it. "No problem," the engineers said, "We are going to build an uncrashable airplane." And they almost did. The record shows about seventeen-million hours per accident, but two of those had nothing to do with the quality of the plane: the collision of two 747s on the runway in the Canary Islands. Due to misunderstanding communications from the tower, a KLM 747 took off when not cleared for takeoff, striking a Pan Am 747, destroying both planes.
Number in service: 838
Boeing 737 NG
4. Boeing 737 NG
NG means "next generation" to designate the models -600 through the 737-900 models built starting in 1997. the Sixteen-million hours per accident.
Number in service: 2,925
Boeing 767
5. Boeing 767
Slightly edging out the 757 and the 320, the 767 has fifteen-million hours per accident. It was, like the 757, first built in 1982 and has engineering so similar to the 757 that pilots who are qualified on one are qualified on the other.
Number in service: 867
Airbus 320
6. Airbus 320
In a virtual tie with the Boeing 757, the Airbus 320 has fourteen-million hours per accident. It was first built in 1988.
Number in service: 3,604
Boeing 757
7. Boeing 757
Were you impressed with the record of the 737 CFMI at one accident in five-million flight hours? Hold on to your hat! The 757 is double that. In fact, it is almost triple that with one accident in about fourteen-million hours of flying. First in service in 1982, this is what I call a third-generation airliner. It has the benefits of computerization of navigation and monitoring of the various systems on the plane, so that if the primary system goes out of normal parameters, the plane switches automatically to a standby system. In addition, there is a backup system and an emergency system if needed.
This is my favorite plane to fly as a pilot. Flown by American, Delta and United.
Number in service: 973
Airbus 330
8. Airbus 330
One accident in twelve-million hours puts the A-330 in eighth position.
s First built in 1993.
Number in service: 577
Boeing 737 CFMI
9. Boeing 737 CFMI
The second generation of 737s (-300, -400, -500) were built with the CMF engine starting in 1984. We are talking serious safety: five million hours of flying per accident.
Number in service 2,033
What does one accident in five million hours mean? Well, at five-hundred miles per hour, that means 2,500,000,000 miles. If you trade in your car every 100,000 miles, that means the number of miles you would rack up with 25,000 cars! As impressed as you are with your ability to drive, how confident would you be of going through 25,000 cars without an accident?
McDonald-Douglas MD-11
10. McDonnell-Douglas MD-11
As testimony to the DC-10, this 1990 upgrade has posted 3.7 million hours per accident and none in the past ten years.
Number in service: 187
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