Originally Posted by
rickair7777
No, European airlines have a measurably worse safety record than US 121. Still very safe, but not as safe as us. Basic airmanship plays a role in that.
Wait, what? Which European airlines are you talking about? For that matter, how many European airlines have crashed in Europe versus those here for say the past 20 years?
Off the top of my head, Germanwings which was a suicidal FO, the British 777 at Heathrow that was a fuel-filter clog issue (and they did a great job and everyone lived), the SAS MD80 Linate airport disaster, but the MD80 did nothing wrong and hit a business jet that crossed onto their runway (runway incursion) in hard IMC/low vis. There was a Spanair MD80 that took off with no flaps and crashed.
Meanwhile in America, excluding 9/11 there was the rudder smashing out of JFK, several crashes in IMC during approach (Corporate Air, UPS, etc), a stall crash with Colgan, wrong runway Comair. In comparison, almost every crash in America was a pilot-error type so I'm curious to know what airmanship you claim is somehow better here versus in Europe?