Safest Airplane out there
 

Just curious, If you had the worlds best flight crew at the controls, what airplane do you feel safest in when deadheading in the back?

Also, my appologies to the Dash 300 and 200 guys, group that under the q i guess and also to the beech guys It wont let me edit the poll.

Probably 737- any series


Least safe, TU-134 those things drop like flies all over third world countries

I voted the DC9!!! Its proven technology

I voted Q 400. Until Colgan 3407 there have been no fatalities in this bird or any of it's smaller models (Q 100 200 300), and this plane has been flying for a while, and I've flown the 200 and loved flying it. I like this thread should be interesting.

I remember hearing a long time back that there has never been a fatal accident in a E-145. Seems far fetched but does anyone know for sure?

As for the 737, I highly doubt it considering they had all those rudder hard-over accidents. Still pretty darn good record considering how long they've been flying!

None that I know of.

The advantage of an old model is that all the bugs have been worked out. The rudder servos have long-since been replaced with a new design (well maybe not in africa). Ideally you'd want to fly on a recently (but no too recently) built airplane whose design has been around for a long time, with a lengthy production run, and no known current issues.

The 73 qualifies, the bus does not (current issues).

Also you have to consider relative length of service and production run when comparing models...the ERJ might not look so good if the fleet had the same number of hours as the 73 fleet!

Remember the worlds safest commercial airplane, with a decades-long perfect record? The concorde went from first to worst in about 7 minutes. Turns out it had all kinds of design issues, but the low production run and low utilization meant that it took a long time for a fatal accident to result. Ultimately 7% of the fleet was lost...that's not a good number for a commercial plane. The space shuttle lost 20%...

The safest plane is the one that never leaves the ground

Definitely the 777.

the safest plane is the one im flying

I thought of some other pointless questions that anyone with zero life might actually answer:

1- What is the coolest flight number?

2- Which pen is the most professional?

3- Which pilot is the greatest?

Get a life :o

Ooh, I'll go first!

1- What is the coolest flight number? - Whatever one I'm using

2- Which pen is the most professional? - Whichever one's in my pocket

3- Which pilot is the greatest? - ME!

;)

Have the resolved that whole fuel-system-blocked-by-ice-double-engine-rollback thingy?

Not true:( I often tell passengers that the taxiing around the airport is one of the least safe places to be. You just never know when some big Delta jet is going to land on a taxiway!:D

Gulfstream5/550 for the safest. Only lost one in the entire aircraft series! :cool:

1) Easy...Iron Maiden Flight 666

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images...n-airplane.jpg

One word....Tenerife.

My answers:

1. Coolest flight number - 69 (of course)
Worst I ever had was 666 (don't even know why the airline uses that one!)

2. The Marriott hotel pen far out performs the Holiday Inn pen

3. Everyone knows it's Sully! Just ask the media!

HAHA! LMAO! Heehee (still giggling!)

I think he meant the safest plane is one that is in a hangar with the engines off.

We have a few of those over here at OH.

I'll go with the 757. I can't think of one crash that aircraft has ever had that was due to some mechanical problem or design fault. Same goes for the EMB-145. And those are flown by 'regional pilots' :eek: with many more cycles per day than a 757.

Lost:
Challenger
Columbia

Not Lost:
Enterprise (glider)
Discovery
Atlantis
Endeavour

That's 33.3%

As far as i know this is a true statement. Its a very safe airplane

I really didnt think this thread was that stupid, I thought it might be actually a interesting one. You are entitled to your opinion though. I thought it would be a change of pace thread, not one that is doom and gloom, or full of false rumors. Does everyone else think this is stupid?

What about the Brasilia?

The Brakillya? No way. ASA lost 2 airplanes due to prop failiures. Continental Express lost one as well back in the early 90's due to a flight control failure in the horizontal stab. Comair crashed one due to icing as well.

Oh, they actually keep them inside now? I got used to seeing them littering the maintenance tarmac when I was at recurrent! Of course, it has now been a year since I was furloughed, so I don't know what's going on at OH (and I don't think the people there know either!).

Nah...not stupid at all! Kinda' fun way to talk airplanes without trying to p*#s in anybody's Wheaties.

Maybe "UnlimitedAkro" hasn't been inverted in awhile!;)

Damn, here I thought I typed in airlinepilotforums.com, not airliners.net. :o

With the world's best flight crew at the controls, aren't they all 100% safe? I mean really, the world's best flight crew would be able to deal with any emergency to a successful resolution.

Big difference between safe and reliable, and I think both hinge on the corporate culture of the company operating them and not necessarily the engineering philosophy that designed them.

I vote for the Ford Tri-Motor!!

The Brits I used to teach always told me how the Concorde had never had an accident. After they lost the one after take off, I ran the numbers: if 737s had the same loss rate per hour as the Concord, there would be a 73 going down every two or three days.

I vote V-Tail

Yeah, but the Concorde crash was not due to mechanical/design flaws. That would be like saying Delta 767's have a flaw that makes them land on taxiways sometimes:eek:

Cause of the Concorde crash: Continental Airlines (non-standard installation of the metal strip that fell off a DC-10)

I'm sure Buddy Holly, Richie Valence, and the Big Bopper would disagree!
But then again, I would call that Pilot Error.

What, no love for the mighty 146/Avro?

Way to answer a question with a question!

You giggle?

Anyways, I think it's a decent question considering we all have our opinions on this sort of thing. Part of the Airbus 320 series' design involved keeping pilots from killing themselves and their passengers. Unfortunately, they haven't coupled the controls to the EGPWS (at least I don't think) to keep pilots from flying themselves into mountainsides. And since they haven't been able to conclude what happened to Air France off the coast of Brazil, we can't really have a conclusive opinion based on that.

Statistically, you're way less likely to die on a 777 or an A340. RJs do pretty well too. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I can't think of a CRJ accident that didn't involve pilot error?

Actually a whole lot of them are inside ASA, Pinnacle, and Skywest Hangers :-\

Or inside our own hangers with the engines literally OFF......

If it wasn't for the Bonanza, the world would be over run with doctors and lawyers......

That is funny :D