03-12-2019, 08:22 AM
(03-12-2019, 08:17 AM)fenders53 Wrote:(03-12-2019, 04:45 AM)crimsonghost747 Wrote:You are correct. There are some on the list that certainly qualify as large passenger airline fatal accidents. It's rare when they pin it down to a failed aircraft that was regularly maintained.(03-12-2019, 02:35 AM)fenders53 Wrote: I did some looking around and didn't find any major passenger airliner crashes this decade. Which do you refer to? Country, airline and aircraft? I just don't remember them. I didn't count the Malaysian incident due to the circumstances. In any event, this is not AT ALL normal to my recollection. I am hopeful the two accidents are not actually that similar when the facts come out. For now it sounds bad.
There is a pretty decent list here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ac...craft#2018
Of course some are pilot errors, some are malfunctions and some are both. But the point is that accidents do happen quite regularly.
80+% of all aviation accidents are attributed, at least in part, to pilot error. That said, in the modern era, flying on a commercial aircraft just about anywhere in the world is statistically safer than driving to work in the morning.