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Even by fatalities.

737 Maxes have flown more than a couple of million of flights, at least, since they entered service, that puts their fatal incident rate at similar levels of the A320.

The only two incidents, also, as you know, were related and both happened 5+ years ago.



That’s comparing apples to two sacks of apples, one of which is 30 years older.

The A320neo entered service in 2016 and has over 3,000 of the type in service and has zero fatal accidents involving passengers or flight crew (there have been five fatalities from two incidents involving runway incursions by ground crew). There have been no serious in-flight incidents.

The 737max was introduced in 2017 and has over 1500 in service, about half of the airbus A320 neo. It has had two fatal accidents resulting in 346 fatalities and one serious in-flight incident. The record is not great.

If you want to compare all 737 models back to the first flight of the A320 I’m pretty sure it’ll be closer, but flying is much safer than it was even with the 737max.

However I do believe that Boeing will resolve the issues. It will take time to fix the culture that resulted caused them though.


> If you want to compare all 737 models back to the first flight of the A320

That's easy, the 737 has a better record. The 737NG in particular has arguably the best safety record of any airliner ever produced.




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