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Southwest has never had a fatal accident (as a passenger).

That is damn good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1248




I'm curious, are there stats for this that are adjusted for the number of flights/total time of flights/total number of passenger-hours flown? I found one list[0] but it didn't quite give that:

[0]: http://airsafe.com/airline.htm


These stats are usually better for new airlines (in Europe and US at least) because air travel has become so much safer. Accidents are so rare now that it's just luck if you had 0 or 1 accident in the last decade.




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