On: Max: Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in te...

[wincy]

I flew on Spirit recently and noticed before takeoff in the little speech the flight attendants make they mention their “all Airbus fleet”, which honestly made me feel better. I don’t want to fly on a Boeing at this point, as I fly so seldom anyway and this has just devastated my opinion of them.

[mannykannot → wincy]

There has been a slow-simmering pop-hypothesis, fueled by a number of accidents such as AF 447, that Airbus' approach to fly-by-wire controls is less intuitive than Boeing's in a crisis. As far as I know, there is no real evidence for this making Airbus planes less safe, but until the 737 Max crashes, I think there was, if anything, a bias against Airbus.

[clZIXvt9Jz → mannykannot]

This is a quick & dirty statistic that I just made.

Incidents listed on Wikipedia excl. hijacking/being shot down where >=20 people perish:

  year airbus boeing
  2000 2 3
  2001 1 0
  2002 0 4
  2003 0 3
  2004 0 1
  2005 0 6
  2006 2 2
  2007 1 3
  2008 1 2
  2009 2 0
  2010 2 2
  2011 0 2
  2012 0 1
  2013 0 1
  2014 1 1
  2015 1 0
  2016 1 1
  2017 0 1
  2018 0 2
  2019 0 1
  2020* 1 2

I couldn't find any data on the number of journeys per year. The statistic is useless as an indicator of safety as it isn't normalized to either a unit of distance or journey.

* To date.