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Originally Posted by Jrboulder
The problem with your comparison is that you've lumped all of the 737s together even though they span several generations of aviation technology. Back in the day flying was dangerous. The -100/-200 were little basically snub nose 707s an as such they even had windows for navigating with sextants. At a minimum you need to compare the CFM56-powered 737s to the A320.
And yeah, established, financially well-off airlines like Southwest avoid the scarebus like the plague.
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No expert on the models, but Boeing 737-600/700/800/900, are those newer? That group has 0.08 deaths/mil flights, so practically the same. I think that A320s were at 0.08 before this crash.
So, even with that correction towards newer model Boeings, there isn't statistics showing the Airbus is unsafe compared to the Boeing. Otherwise they would not be competitive and would not have sold over 6k of them.
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