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Fear of flying

Discussion in 'General' started by Mblashfield, Jan 22, 2013.

  1. Mblashfield

    Mblashfield Well-Known Member

    :wow:


    Here are the ten with the worst safety records, including the number of hull losses since 1983, and how many fatalities they caused:
    #10 SkyWest Airlines: 3 hull losses; 22 dead
    #9 South African Airways: 1 hull loss; 159 dead
    #8 Thai Airways International: 5 hull losses; 309 dead
    #7 Turkish Airlines: 6 hull losses, 188 dead
    #6 Saudia: 4 hull losses; 310 dead
    #5 Korean Air: 9 hull losses; 687 dead
    #4 GOL Transportes Aéreos: 1 hull loss; 154 dead
    #3 Air India: 3 hull losses; 329 dead
    #2 TAM Airlines: 6 hull losses; 336 dead
    #1 China Airlines: 8 hull losses; 755 dead
     
  2. 675AV8R

    675AV8R Jetski Extraordinaire

    Meh. You're more likely to die on the way to the airport than you are in a plane crash.
     
  3. ryoung57

    ryoung57 Off his meds

    You're more likely to die from the disease you caught from spending four hours in a flying petri dish breathing everyone's coughs, sneezes, and farts.
     
  4. dammyneckhurts

    dammyneckhurts Well-Known Member

    Worst safety record is not an accurate statement here. "Which airline killed the most people" would be more like it.

    What if Skywest only owns 10 planes and flies 7,000 hours per year.... then 22 dead looks pretty bad.

    If China Air owns 1500 planes and flies 1,500,000 hours a year for 755 dead, statistically you would actually be safer to fly with China Air over Skywest
     
  5. 675AV8R

    675AV8R Jetski Extraordinaire


    I made it a point to contribute to all 3 of those on the way back from Honolulu last weekend :D
     
  6. Sheik Abdul ben Falafel

    Sheik Abdul ben Falafel Well-Known Member

    safest:

    Air France-KLM

    AMR Corporation (American Airlines, American Eagles)

    British Airways

    Continental Airlines

    Delta Airlines

    Japan Airlines

    Lufthansa

    Southwest Airlines

    United Airlines

    US Airways


    when i was growing up, Quantas was the safest.
     
  7. regularguy

    regularguy Always Krispy

    I enjoyed flying on Iraqi Airlines from Amman to Baghdad back in 2005 shortly after they were allowed to resume commercial flights. The duct tape on the fuselage was reaasuring. Royal Jordanian flights with contracted South African pilots wouldn't fly due to a sandstorm but it was no problem for the Iraqi pilots. Allah Hu Akbar...
     
  8. Mblashfield

    Mblashfield Well-Known Member

    Total dead people is total dead people.
     
  9. Mblashfield

    Mblashfield Well-Known Member

    Nuh- uh....


    The world’s safest airlines:
    1. Finnair
    2. Air New Zealand
    3. Cathay Pacific
    4. Emirates
    5. Etihad
    6. EVA Air
    7. TAP Portugal
    8. Hainan Airlines
    9. Virgin Australia
    10. British Airways


    Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/t...s-safest-airlines-revealed.html#ixzz2IjDOKKfp
     
  10. 675AV8R

    675AV8R Jetski Extraordinaire

    They still are one of the safest and hasn't had any crashes since the 50's IIRC.
     
  11. Mblashfield

    Mblashfield Well-Known Member

    Us companies not in the top 20.
     
  12. Sheik Abdul ben Falafel

    Sheik Abdul ben Falafel Well-Known Member

    read this book about ex russian pilots turned smugglers who piloted antonovs and ilyushins into iraq and afghan...onto dirt airports and such where nobody else could land anything short of a helo.

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Outlaws-Inc-Dangerous-Smugglers/dp/1608195309
     
  13. TakeItApart

    TakeItApart Oops!

  14. Sheik Abdul ben Falafel

    Sheik Abdul ben Falafel Well-Known Member

  15. regularguy

    regularguy Always Krispy

  16. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    I know for a fact that's not possible.
     
  17. Sheik Abdul ben Falafel

    Sheik Abdul ben Falafel Well-Known Member

    for real?

    I posted the website above...what criterias are they measuring wrong?
     
  18. 675AV8R

    675AV8R Jetski Extraordinaire

  19. Joe Morris

    Joe Morris Off The Reservation

    I'm suffering those symptoms now after a weekend in the petri dish.

    :moon:
     
  20. bpro

    bpro Big Ugly Fat F*****

    Based on experience.. Air france is held together by dirt and corrosion... Of course the bodies inside are so tightly packed that they don't move around much in the event of a crash and may contribute to the structural integrity of the airframe.
     

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